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[quote=Anonymous]With the really high IQ kids, I don't think it's an issue of misbehavior, at least not directly or initially, though it can eventually become one. Nor do I think it's automatic that the teachers won't know how to engage. But I do think it's very common for the exceptionally high IQ kids not to demonstrate their intelligence or skills to their teachers because they're not being challenged to do so, and then for the teachers to mistakenly think that the kids aren't so intelligent and maybe that the work they're being given is too hard, when in fact it's too easy. This creates a negative feedback loop, and the kid's frustration and disengagement will just build, as will the teacher's, until there really are behavioral problems. In my experience, parents have to be really forceful advocates because teachers will fall back on their diagnostics and their guts and miss what's really going on, and they probably reflexively (and not entirely unjustifiably) are skeptical of parents coming in bragging about how smart their kids are. It would be nice to find schools that could recognize and handle such kids without moving them out of the classroom for specialized attention because I think they benefit from being integrated with their peers, but I'm not sure where that would be for elementary or middle school around here. [/quote]

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