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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First off, who did the assessment?  His rural preschool? They are very unlikely able to make any sort of giftedness/advanced assessment.  I’d take that with a grain of salt.  Kids from rural areas often look very gifted in comparison to their peers…once they are surrounded with peers from educated areas, they look closer to average.

If he went to a psychologist for testing, I don’t get mom’s hand waving about not having time to deal with him and being upset about the results…clearly she had time to find a testing place and do the tests.

Also, she has clearly worked with this kid or had him tutored.  A non-reading three year old can’t be born competent in fifth grade math because (even if a genius), he wouldn’t know the jargon or how to express the concepts.  So, she should just keep doing what she’s been doing.

Finally, the concept that genius kids are becoming troublemakers because they are bored is utter baloney.  When your kids reach MS and HS, you will realize that the troublemakers have below average intelligence across the board.[/quote]

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I would add, testing is meaningless to prove outlier talent. It’s also important to know how he got to master 5th grade math, which would include arithmetic, fractions, proportions, percents, powers etc.

Focus on finding work that is challenging and engaging. From my experience with my own child, the public school will be useless, and the same can be said about most private schools as well. In a rural area that’s a certainty. AOPS was mentioned, and I second that. Try to find how he best learns, is it through a tutor or independently? Then help him however you can, financially or through an adult that will support his education.[/quote]

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