Gifted education is, I believe, an area that has rather too much funding compared to gifted mental health services. (Mental health services generally, of course

Gifted education is, I believe, an area that has rather too much funding compared to gifted mental health services. (Mental health services generally, of course, but often gifted children are functional long enough and just enough that debilitating conditions that have nothing to do with intelligence, but could end their life, are not identified in them.) A lot of the gifted education policy discourse seems to treat gifted children as resources where the yield must be increased. But they are, like all children, humans and the primary problem of their condition is not "not achieving according to their ability", but indeed it is suffering. Policy should strive to address, first, suffering, and only then be concerned with achievement. (Again, as with all children. For example, this is what is done with education for children that don't have the intellectual abilities for regular schooling.) And I don't really wish to tell actual experiences here, but gifted children have plenty of suffering that is not simply due to being bored in school or not told they're smart often enough.