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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people here seem to think they are an expert on how gifted children behave.

Here's what Hoagies' gifted has to say about boredom in gifted kids: http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/never_say_bored.htm[/quote]

I've had continuing education classes on this topic and totally disagree.  [b]I've lived it with truly gifted children in my classes see how they create their own stimulation with whatever is presented.[/b]  For example, if I we were doing a journal entry for the 78th time that school year (first grade) and I ask the children to write a fiction story, a gifted child's story will be longer, contain amazing details (often using non-fiction supporting details or fantasy details).  The one that I can recall right now was written by a first grade boy about a mummy which seems innocent enough and typical enough for a first grader) but this one had details about the Egyptian sarcophagus', why they were used, how they looked, etc.  Nearly all first grade boys would write a FICTION mummy story about mummies with a focus about the Halloween-aspect of a mummy story.[/quote]

You obviously have little experience working with 2E kids.[/quote]

Yeah, and 5-6 different ways to come up with the answer to a math problem? I'm not buying it. Most gifted kids I know would rush through the easy math so that they could read a book. Not a bad use of time, but obviously that isn't meeting their needs in math.[/quote]

I know gifted -- the 5-6 different ways is not gifted, it is OCD.  We are talking 1st and 2nd grade...at that age;  there are not that many ways to solve 32+15....47 is 47.  I remember back to that year....I was given these worksheets of 50 problems.  I would do a few, get the answers right, and want to move onto something else....I was required to finish the worksheet....so instead, I would day dream.  As a result, the school flunked me; I repeated the second grade.  Because I was unwilling to do the work that I knew how to do.  Oh, I am a PhD Physicist today with an IQ of between 150 and 160...[/quote]

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