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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher of the gifted once explained to me why this is a specious argument: Truly gifted children don't get bored. They're always looking for something to do or be interested in.

Bored in class is NOT actually an indicator of being gifted.[/quote]

Sweet heavens. I hope that teacher no longer works with gifted children because it's clear she has no idea what she's talking about. Does she also believe that girls are not good at math? Same sweeping, erroneous type of belief.

My highly/profoundly gifted son was painfully bored in school, not because he can't come up with a way to entertain himself, but because what he wants to do/learn/think about is outside the bounds of the classroom. He had one teacher who understood this and one who very much did not. Go figure that he had a terrible year with the second teacher. She operated on the theory that a child "earns" more advanced work by slogging through work that is well below their level. Way to kill a child's love of learning! Our son was suffering from significant depression in that environment. Switched to a far more challenging program and his boredom disappeared. He now loves school.

I remember being painfully bored in school as well. I was a perfectly behaved angel of a student, but BORED. School finally became interesting enough to pay attention when I arrived in my first honors class. Until then, it was straight As and extreme boredom. Trust me that the testing and academic performance bears out that both my son and I are gifted. [/quote]

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