My neighbor and friend N. has a son, A., who is Littlest Guy’s age. Both Littlest Guy and A. were asked to test for the “GATE” (Gifted And Talented Education) track – basically the ‘honors’ track. They test for this from third to fifth grade in our district, and both boys are in fifth grade.<\/p>\n
N.’s dad and mom also live in the neighborhood (N. grew up down the street from where I live), and once a week they go out for a family meal.<\/p>\n
He & I had coffee yesterday, and he told me what happened at this week’s meal. Note: this will work much better if you read it out loud…<\/b><\/p>\n N. to A.: “Tell Grandpa your news.”<\/p>\n \nA.: “I will have GATE testing next week.”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “What!! What are you saying!!”<\/p>\n \nN.: “A’s getting tested for GATE! Isn’t that wonderful?”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “How can you say that! Are you crazy?”<\/p>\n \nN. (concerned): “Dad, it’s a real honor, why are you upset?”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “They test for this in fifth grade, now? What are we coming to?”<\/p>\n \nN.: “Wait, dad, what in the world is the problem?”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “They are going to gay-test A.!!”<\/p>\n \nN.: “Yes, exactly! He will test for GATE.”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “How can you accept that? Gay-testing a boy his age!”<\/p>\n \nN: “Yes, GATE testing.”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “Oh, God what is the world coming to, gay-testing a boy like A.”<\/p>\n \nN’s wife, S.: “Grandpa, what do you think we’re talking about?”<\/p>\n \nGrandpa: “Testing to see if A. is gay, of course! What an outrage! How can you sit still for this?”<\/p>\n \nN. covers his face, S. laughs…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sometimes pronunciation is the key to successful communication…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Misunderstandings within families…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}