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[quote=Anonymous]NP here, with my two cents. Regardless of giftedness or not (a red herring, in my opinion), the key to not being bored in class is having access to engaging and adequately challenging material, whether it's provided for you or you provide it yourself.

My elementary school and high school classes, by and large, provided enough opportunities; many of my junior high school classes didn't. My outlet was exchanging notes with my friends. I recall many, many notes being passed back and forth, most of them starting with some variation of "I am soooooooo bored!!!"

I asked my husband (who is much smarter than me) if he was bored in school. I expected him to say he was bored all the time. To my surprise, he said no; he said he read ahead in textbooks and worked out advanced math challenges in his head or in notebooks.

Either way, the ideal answer is for teachers to engage all of the students effectively. Second-best is to give them license to disengage and do their own thing, as long as they're not being disruptive. Taking it a step further, my high school sociology teacher didn't report students for skipping class, if they could still manage to do well on the tests![/quote]

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