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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a first grade teacher I have rarely heard that kids are bored. Anytime it happened, the kids were not the top kids in the class academically. [b]My truly gifted students truly don't get bored in school. [/b]They are fantastically curious and innovative. For example, at the beginning of first grade one year we were reading alphabet books and then each child would make a page of our class alphabet book with a sentence and picture. My brightest kid made her own alphabet book, pages A through Z. [/quote]

This is a belief I have only encountered on DCUM. And it's circular reasoning, too.

1. Truly gifted students don't get bored in class.
2. Therefore, if a student does get bored in class, that student is not truly gifted.

I think it's nonsense.[/quote]

It's true, whether you believe it or not.  My kids both have very high IQs but don't say they are bored, esp. related to school.  I can see from work that comes home that the work would not be fun to complete but neither kid says he/she is bored.[/quote]

NP here and I agree.  My child who is reading several grade levels above her grade and is doing math above her grade has not told me she is bored.  What she does tell me is that she finishes her work and she gets to do her own research/reading etc...  She and a friend have even decided to enter the science fair at her school.  She is loving doing the research and experimentation for that.[/quote]

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