Normal school is pretty easy for children in the top 5%. For children who are much smarter than that following a curriculum designed for average children is not

Normal school is pretty easy for children in the top 5%. For children who are much smarter than that following a curriculum designed for average children is not just a waste of time it’s incredibly boring and frustrating. Being bored all day with things you knew already or picked up three days into a six week unit is not a good way to get children to enjoy school. If they’re good at school school is unpleasant because it’s not set up for them. Orders of magnitudes more money is spent on special education than on gifted education because no one cares about children who’ll already do fine academically except maybe, if they’re lucky, their parents.