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Parents of children with super high IQ scores - where are your children in school?
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Anonymous
| We kept our DC in MoCo down-county public for elementary and middle school. DC is way ahead in math, had English teachers here and there who challenged her--but was mostly bored during school. We're switching to a big three for high school. She begged us to let her try it. So we'll see. |
Anonymous
| The smartest kids are homeschooled. |
Anonymous
| 140s . Norwood. Working so far. |
Anonymous
| 110 Sidwell, working well and loving it... |
Anonymous
| I've known a number of high IQ students in a number of settings and each one is so different. IQ is only part of the picture. Temperament, maturity, affinities, socialability all play into the mix. What grade is your child in, OP? |
Anonymous
| WIS, everything working fine. |
Anonymous
Amen. |
Anonymous
And have the worse social kids and strangest families... |
Anonymous
LOL!! |
Anonymous
Since when is 110 considered a super high IQ? Mine is around 120 and I thought that was just slightly above average. |
Anonymous
| green acres. so far, so good. |
Anonymous
There are some folks on DCUM who have a lot invested in their position that regular schools, especially publics, aren't doing enough for their highly or profoundly gifted kid. I side more with the poster who said that it depends on the kid. If the kid is self-motivated, they will find ways to challenge themselves. Some parents don't believe this and I got flamed for saying it on a thread a few months ago. But I stand by it and maybe some of the difference lies in differences in self motivation among kids. I say this as someone who was never challenged in my backwater school, but starting in middle school I found ways to teach myself the subjunctive tense on the sidelines, turn in reports and essays that went way beyond what was expected (like PP said her kid was doing), et cetera. Possibly another problem is that kids today (including mine) have too many other distractions, if not TV then travel soccer, and not enough time to study the subjunctive at home. |
Anonymous
This is most likely true, but more relevant for upper grades. In younger elementary school grades, many students, even intellectually curious ones, just won't be able to take the initiative to "challenge themselves"; they just aren't developmentally ready yet. It shouldn't be up to a young child to have to figure out how to work around the school to get the right education! 
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Anonymous
| OP, did you have a sense that your child was gifted prior to the age of 2? What did he or she do that gave you this sense? How did you nurture and support it? |
Anonymous
I agree with this statement, but as the parent of a "profoundly gifted" child who definitely is NOT self-motivated, DS would not thrive within the regular curriculum; he would be bored out of his mind. We are very glad that his private school is accelerating him to where he needs to be, and that the school correctly recognizes that it is the school's mission to challenge all children, not to put it on a child to challenge him/herself. |