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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] But I see all of these parents so convinced their children are so gifted and so far ahead of all of the other kids that I fear those children will grow into some really ego-centric, arrogant and possibly dysfunctional adults.
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Really? I don't see that where I live. Especially because, once the children get to school, it immediately becomes evident that there is at least a small group of children doing the same things. I was a little worried when I sent child #1 to kindergarten already reading -- not that she would be bored, but that she would spend a year learning that c-a-t spells cat, which she already knew. As it turned out, though, there were 4 or 5 early readers in her kindergarten class.

Plus, also, the value of persistence and the disadvantages of believing in one's own intellectual superiority have no bearing on whether or not the idea that children -- including gifted children -- can be bored in school is ridiculous.

And nobody (at least on this thread) has reported that what they found boring was rote memorization. Boring is having to go over and over things you have already thoroughly learned, with no alternative for doing anything else. I really don't see how anybody could deny that this is so.[/quote]

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