I was in "gifted" all through elementary and Jr. high.......But even though we did a lot of advanced work, we also did a lot of playing......We basically had a 2 hour period set aside for us to play chess, checkers, connect 4, Videogames like Zany Golf and shit like that. I saw no real benefits from it, but then again, maybe I wasn't supposed to see tangible results.......The payoff is I'm a human calculator.....Oh, and just because I AM Buddyroe, I'll also say I think my placement in those classes were a bit accredited to some form of juvenile affirmative action....There were only 2 black kids and one Latino in there along with some reaaaaaaaally dumb white kids, though I didn't become so jaded to believe that until my 20s.......Back then I actually felt special.