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[quote=Anonymous]I have a friend whose complaints about APS sound a lot like yours, OP. I guess it’s possible you are my friend! She has been certain since kindergarten that her son is learning nothing at school, she says that in front of him, and she even allows him to miss class for frivolous reasons, because her belief is that most of class is for the other kids, not for her gifted child. The thing she doesn’t see is that her child has A LOT of learning he needs to do about how to get along with other kids — not that he’s a behavioral problem AT ALL, but he’s annoying, and other kids don’t tend to like him that much. She also complains that he doesn’t have good friends. All of that is a huge part of what the kids are supposed to be learning in elementary school. But she’s completely poisoned his thinking about school such that he now complains about how slow the curriculum is and how he’s too advanced for it.

I went to Yale. I got a perfect score on my SATs way back in the day. I went to crappy elementary schools in North Carolina, and I wasn’t bored because I could use the school library and check out books on any topic and read them, plus I had an imagination.

I think most of the talk about gifted kids being bored in school is coming from their parents, not actually from the kids. Stopping telling your child that he’s bored. See what happens.[/quote]

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