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[quote=Anonymous]My two cents is that kids these days are more on-demand because they are otherwise constantly stimulated, so boredom is more commonplace today amongst all students, gifted or not.  I'm in my mid-forties, and back when I was growing up in the "GT" program, kids would just read a book or enjoy the downtime after finishing an assignment or test early to draw, read, work on enrichment materials, or simply look around the classroom.  Nowadays, kids feel bored when they have a few minutes of unstructured free time in class.

I agree with OP that boredom doesn't necessarily equate to gifted, though I do think that some gifted kids (especially PG ones) are truly bored at school.  There's only so many books you can bring to school with you each day, and after a while a kid gets tired of reading for a few minutes at a time while waiting for other kids to finish a paper.  Younger DC says it's extremely annoying to read 10 pages of a book at a time interspersed throughout the day.  Not everyone likes to draw, and there's only so many creative things a kid can think up on the back of a math worksheet in 5 minutes.[/quote]

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