My son is pretty bright and very dilligent and hard-working. He is working his butt off in a middle school that caters to his type. He gets great grades, but we try to tell him not to stress over it too much as even without straight “A”s he is getting a great education.
I wish that my two younger twin daughters would be able to handle it, but I don’t think so. The fall-back is they can take AP classes in middle school so that will help.
I had friends that were super-smart in high school that just weren’t pushed and engaged hard enough. Of course they were the ones that got in trouble!
We switched my son to private school for high school because he wasn’t getting pushed hard enough in the public school system.
The public high school only had 1 honors class for freshmen. Every subject has honors classes in the private school. Also, the level of students in the private school is much higher in the private school.
I knew toooooo many gifted kids in college who couldn’t handle studying in college. I would prefer that my gifted kids learn how to work hard while they are younger.
At the same time, I just want my special needs daughter to be at grade level. I also think she will eventually go to college because she is very good at math. I don’t know what her career will be, but it should be math related and not writing.
I’ve thought seriously about homeschooling my special needs daughter because it would be so easy to tailor her education, but she loves going to school. She loves the social aspects. She loves being around the kids. She loves her teachers. She loves playing on the softball team. It just makes our evenings a living H*** trying to get homework done!!!!!!!!!!!