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Your child is not a genius. Get over it
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoConversely, the statistics (genius is very rare) cause educators to deliberately ignore bright students when they encounter them. Every effort is made to push the ends of the bell-curve firmly back toward the center. I imagine its because they get thick-skinned, rebuffing parents attempts to get special treatment for their children almost daily, so when the really-bright ones come along then their bs-detector is worn out, and triggers false positive. This from my experience of several bright children, who's parents met vigorous resistance from school teachers, specialists, administrators. One had to threaten lawsuit and arrange a private ride-sharing network to get middle-school children to the high school for appropriate math classes. Another couldn't check out curriculum guides from the media specialist because they weren't "age-appropriate" for her boy (who entered college at 14). Another new student was denied reading material because the district specialist blindly evaluated him as an average reader, without ever asking him to try reading a book! He was ravenously consuming Wizard of Oz at 5. Fortunately the Kindergarten teacher saw him smuggling it into class and allowed him to read privately while the group was mastering See Spot Run. So its a feud by now, with desperate parents home-schooling or struggling to pay for private school. It shouldn't have to be this way.