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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem isn't just IQ. It's also personality.  I was a calm, introverted, highly gifted child who just wanted to be left alone. I thought school was a complete waste of time, but I didn't complain. I just did my work as quickly as possible. When I finished my work, I was happy to read quietly.

My son is like my husband -- profoundly gifted, extroverted and high energy.  When he's bored, he is going to ask a million questions to find the interesting part of the lesson or he's going to find a way to entertain himself. This is very disruptive to the class.  We do our best to coach him on coping with boredom and with finding class situations in which he will be less bored. [/quote]
I think it is odd that so many people on these boards think their kids are gifted or highly gifted.  Seems like everyone is.[/quote]

Exactly.  As another poster mentioned, statistically, it's a very small percentage of kids who are actually gifted.  These parents must be obnoxious and annoying for teachers to deal with precisely because they're so convinced of their children's giftedness.

As for the claims of "she understands" and "she comprehends," I think, again, as another poster pointed out, the parents are projecting.  But there's no convincing them.  they'll just write a million more posts with excruciating detail about what their child does and says on a daily basis and how that makes her a genius, when in fact, half of the time, it's just normal developmental stuff and the kid will be fine in school (not overly bored or under-challenged).[/quote]

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