<p>I saw a Duke TIP car magnet in the carpool line this week. Do you agree it’s just too much? Does anyone really want to know her child is gifted?</p>
<p>Blech! I hate all those “My kid is an honor student at Above-Average Elementary”-type things.</p>
<p>I totally agree. Ugh. What’s next – a sticker that gives the percentile of their child’s SAT score?</p>
<p>I did see a funny bumper sticker a couple of weeks ago that said, “My kid is selling your honor student the answers to the test.”</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>It could be a nice way of connecting with other TIP families.
As for the bragging end, most people have never heard of TIP anyway, so I don’t see what the big deal is about having a TIP car magnet.</p>
<p>Aren’t there better ways of connecting with TIP families? What is one supposed to do after spotting such a car magnet? Take down the license number? Then what?</p>
<p>I’m going to get myself a bumper sticker (for my non-existent car): “My child graduated with honors from day-care.”</p>
<p>From the context of the conversation I take it that TIP has something to do with a gifted program. What exactly does TIP stand for?</p>
<p>"I did see a funny bumper sticker a couple of weeks ago that said, “My kid is selling your honor student the answers to the test.”</p>
<p>I’m afraid I could probably have legitimately put that sticker on my car… :)</p>
<p>Sportsmama – TIP is Talent Identification Program. In certain parts of the country if a 7th grader takes the SAT and scores over a certain percentile they are invited by Duke to attend special summer sessions.</p>
<p>“My kid beat up your Honor student” Lovely bumper sticker I’ve seen on more than one occasion.</p>
<p>^ That is one that I loathe. It is totally anti-intellectual. That person’s kid beat up an Honor Student, and that kid sounds like a bully.</p>
<p>^^I hate that one too. It celebrates stupidity, violence, and bullying - three things the world has too much of already.</p>
<p>“Aren’t there better ways of connecting with TIP families? What is one supposed to do after spotting such a car magnet? Take down the license number? Then what?”</p>
<p>I’ve had great conversations with people whom I connected with due to their bumper stickers.</p>
<p>The magnet is not at all pretentious. My son has never done TIP. We got a TIP magnet at the NAGC conference last year, but we keep it on our refrigerator to hold papers there.</p>
<p>One of my kids participated in TIP and we would not display such a magnet - except on the refrigerator at home.</p>
<p>The refrigerator is perfectly fine.</p>
<p>I am so sick of hiding my children in the shadows for fear of offending someone…my son is a Duke TIP scholar, has qualified for the Academy for Summer Studies, my daughter is following right behind him…I’m tired of hiding their accomplishments while I listen to everyone else boast about how their kid was wronged by a teacher who had had enough of their antics, their kid who was suspended wrongly for selling drugs…give me a break! What on the planet is wrong with being proud of my child’s gifts and serious attitude toward school? I see a lot of jealousy in this thread…</p>
<p>I had never heard of TIP until I read this thread, but I don’t care who puts what on their car - even NRA stickers 'cause they are good for target practice.</p>
<p>Well, my D did get a yard sign from her school announcing that she was a National Merit Semifinalist, which was a refreshing change from the various athletics yard signs there are around here.</p>
<p>I’m glad to see two years later that my opinion hasn’t changed. At least I’m consistent.</p>