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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As in life, I suspect admissions are more about optimal intelligence than highest intelligence. My DS tested FSIQ 158. I basically think he's screwed for life. That's too high. (I'm not being falsely modest here; I mean it.) He's in Big 3 primary, and his teachers just don't know how to engage with him. He's bored. He seems like he's in space all day, but he's just thinking about more interesting things. If he were to apply out, his teachers would probably write tepid references. But that's not his fault. [/quote]

Sorry, but FSIQ at 158 does not automatically mean that his teachers don't know how to engage him. The fact of the matter is that people with very high IQs tend to be better behaved than most, rather than less. In other words, your child's mediocre classroom behavior is not due to intelligence, but to other factors--and I'm guessing that one of those is your defeatist attitude grounded in the false notion that extremely high IQ kids can't be engaged by teachers and are therefore bored. [/quote]

? Really? where does this come from? You cannot even imagine how painful it is for a child to sit 8 hours in a classroom while he/she only needs 5 minutes to figure out how things work. They think differently and more quickly. That is all. And they try to do their best to keep their frustration for themselves. Nothing to do with misbehavior. When they are really lucky, the knowledgeable teacher - or the teacher who manages to make time for it - gives them extra work. Otherwise they stay in their world in the best case, or disturb the class when they are really no longer able to deal with their frustration. Please show a little respect here. [/quote]

Of course I can imagine it--I was tested with a 155 IQ (within the margin of error for 158). Note that I did not say that PP's child was misbehaving, but since she stated that her child's recommendations would be tepid, that suggests that the child is not behaving particularly well. And, please, there are some things that a very bright child will grasp more quickly than others, but not everything. Most kids with IQs that high have subjects that do extremely well in and grasp very quickly, and others that they are OK in.  That child is NOT bored 8 hours of the day because he is brilliant in every single subject and every single topic taught. The parents and teachers have to figure out which subjects should be taught differently to meet shown need. So, if that child does very well in math, it may make sense to move the child up to a higher grade math class. If it's in reading, I doubt that the child is alone in reading well above grade level.[/quote]

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