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There is a difference between a smart kid and a gifted learner. Not all gifted learners are star students. In fact, the opposite is often true. Many gifted children have attention issues, don't see the purpose in writing long answers, refuse to do homework, forget their materials, etc. Many of them don't know how to study....they never needed to before.  On the other hand, many gifted learner are such perfectionists that they completely melt down when things aren't exactly right. They are highly anxious and worry about every last detail.  Gifted kids can be highly motivated, but they can also be completely scattered and inattentive (think absent-minded professor).  The key for the teachers and parents of gifted kids is to recognize those differences and help guide their gifted learners learn how to make the most of their giftedness
and learn how to handle the challenges that come with being gifted.[/quote]

Thank you AAP teacher for such a wonderful post. Hope you stay in this forum and answer some of our questions in the future.

My DC falls under the following category:

[b][i]Many gifted children have attention issues, don't see the purpose in writing long answers, refuse to do homework, forget their materials, etc. Many of them don't know how to study....they never needed to before. 
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[b]DC got 99 percentile in NNAT, youngest in the class.  Due to the above behavior, I often think my child may not be gifted[/b], doesn't even have focus, has a very short span with respect to focus, refuse to do homework, always forget things, lot of times very absent minded, looks irresponsible etc. Whereas my wife think the other way that DC is very smart, understands things easily, get the concepts in no time, thinks differently, asks very smart questions etc.

But my concern is what would happen if DC is selected for AAP but continue to do the same like refuse to do homework etc. How to handle this?

Should I even not send my DC to AAP even if he is selected?

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I have a child like this whom I just redshirt in middle school to give him time to figure things out.  He is lousy at doing homework and studying. He relies on what he hears in class for test taken. He is currently a B, he would be all C's if I didn't keep after him. Yet, he doesn't need academic help, he just doesn't do the little stuff to keep up. He has taught himself how to computer program/code in Java. He loves physics and wish his science ( the only A in his report card) would do more of it in class, so he studies it on his own at home. But his other teachers complain about his organizational skills and lack of focus in class, which makes him not all that likable. We will likely go private in our effort to get him inspired. We also travel a lot and try other ways to expand his experiences so he can have other areas of strength to help him figure himself out. It gets frustrating parenting this kid, as he takes all the efforts away from our other kids. [/quote]

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