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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has very close to a photographic memory, and is a speed reader. Tests exceptionally high across the board.

In kinder, the teacher would not recognize this for about the first semester until the child was tested by the school. He got in lots of trouble. I used the word bored, incorrectly. He was not bored; he was filling his time with all sorts of disruptive behavior. Once the academics fell into place, the behavior did a 180.

In 1st grade, the teacher had GT certification, and would modify curriculum for my kid and one other. She also let him read ahead, read independently, do brain teasers & math puzzles when his work was done if everyone else was still learning/working.  Her was never bored in first grade.

In 2nd grade, the teacher was very resistant to the idea differentiation and gifted education (different school). The kid was BORED. Coincidentally, the majority of the class was lower leveled academically. The teacher told us that her focus was on them (I understood) and refused to offer differentiation. This school's standards were also a year behind or more than the previous school. My kid spent the year sneaking books, day dreaming, fidgiting. AND tutoring classmates and going to the kindergarten & first grade classes to tutor new readers.  As a 2nd grader. Yes, he was very bored & wasted the year. He did not cause trouble, but there was another boy equally advanced who did cause trouble. I guarantee that boy was bored out of his mind. Maybe he wouldn't have caused trouble if the school and teacher would have put some effort into finding something to teach this child.  We are talking 2nd graders here.

3rd grade landed him a fabulous teacher very open to differentiation and letting my kid work ahead and delve into topics more in depth, and I don't think he was bored for a single second that year.

Now he is in a program more suited to his ability, and boredom is completely eliminated.

So yes, from my experience with my child, and from watching that other 2nd grader get in trouble repeatedly, I firmly believe that in certain classrooms with certain teachers, gifted students can indeed be bored, and become poor students as a result of that daily, mind numbing learning environment.[/quote]

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