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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm old.  When I was in school and finished early I either read a book I had brought from home or wrote in my journal. My friends and I would write plays that the teacher would allow us to perform. If I was interested in studying something new, I requested permission to the library.

I think one issue today is many students expect the teacher to tell them what to do.  In class, enrichment has to be provided by the teacher-- students are not creative enough to come up with ideas on their own.

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This is what I remember as well and I guess at 46, I'm old too.  I was a fairly average/above avg. student and still remember exactly who the truly gifted kids were in class.  Not because they had been identified as such, but because they were always head and shoulders above everyone else, intellectually.  They were the ones with their noses in books at any available moment, never disrupting class because they were "bored".

My older kids, who were never in GT (at the time, it was still GT), were and are some of the brightest and most interesting people I know.  Most of what they learned at that age came from their own curiosity - reading voraciously after school and consuming as much information as possible.  I can honestly say that their deep knowledge base didn't come from school instruction at all, but from their own motivation to learn anything they could get their hands on.  And as bright as they were/are, they weren't considered "gifted" by testing standards.  Looking at some of the kids these days who are in AAP boggles my mind.  [/quote]

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