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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just don’t confuse this with thinking your child is gifted. Gifted children don’t get bored in school — they’re always finding something to do or wonder about. [/quote]

Teacher here. IME this is true unless that gifted kid is 2e. Some of my 2e kids get bored and have a hard time with that but most of the other extremely bright kids I've had tend to find ways to occupy their time and are not bored. These are those kids reading Harry Potter at 5 that you read about on DCUM but in reality there are not that many of these kids. Later many do end up going to magnets or private.[/quote]

My issue with the whole gifted kids dont get bored is that kids cant just do what they want during instructional time. You cant just find something to do. Staying on task is an important part of learning but when you finish the task in 5 minutes when its allocated for 20-30 and the only thing you are allowed to do is: sit quietly, color, or read. It does get boring. And not all gifted kids are hyperlexic. Not all kids want to spend 45+ minutes reading at school because thats the only thing they can do. My kid is high energy. If he isnt using his mind, he wants to use his body. He also isnt a daydreamer. Not every gifted kid is. The kids cant talk because they are distracting other kids. They cant move around because its unfair to the kids who are still working.

This isnt like a kid at home choosing to go read or build legos or make up a ninja game/storyline outside. These are kids stuck in chairs in rooms sometimes with no exposure to sunlight or the outside. Luckily my kids school has outdoor views in every classroom. This helps him just like it helped me when I was in school. I can zone in nature but I cant zone under flourescent lighting with nothing to do. [/quote]

Yep. My kid is gifted (99th percentile IQ), but has ADHD (hyperactive type) and dyslexia. So she has a combination of 98th/99th percentile verbal comprehension and processing speed abilities, above 99th percentile visual/spatial skills, but low working memory (ADHD) and is barely at grade level for reading.

So when she’s bored, she will only want to read if it’s specific books she knows she can read. If you give her the opportunity to do a massive puzzle or make intricate things out of paper/tape/clay/fabric, she’ll be happy as a clam. If she could bring her Lite Brite and make complex patterns, she’d be in heaven.

But obviously, nearly all of that isn’t going to happen at school.

For 2E kids, public school is often kind of a disaster because they need a lot of enrichment in one area and a ton of support in other areas. [/quote]

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