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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This is the first insightful thing I have read.  I was a gifted kid and often bored, but often not.  If we were told to write something about a planet, I would go to several libraries, check out everything about that planet, and write a lengthy paper with illustrations.  Not boring.  If I was told to sit still in my seat and listen while the teacher taught the kids how to do basic multiplication---bored, bored, bored.  I used to sneak in books to read while the teacher did that, but sometimes I got in trouble for it.  (One particular teacher kept calling my parents and my father finally told him not to call about that anymore, and not to call unless I was bothering other students or my grade fell below an A-.). 
I remember one year where my daughter complained she was bored--I gave her the usual pep talk about making things interesting.  When I went in for open house....it was the most boring morning ever.  The kids sat around on a carpet; the teacher presented a very basic topic; she then called on student at random to answer questions; most of the students answered with "Ummmmmmmmm." And a long pause.  I was absolutely mind numbing to sit through an hour of that.

My gifted kids don't say they're bored =/= if students say they are bored, then that means they are not gifted

Different kids are different. Even different gifted kids are different! And different classrooms and teachers are different too.[/quote][/quote]

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