It truly was a model for how secondary education should work, and I owe much of my understanding of the world to that school district.While gifted kid burnout was brought to light as a joke, it is an issue a lot of students deal with today. I an incredibly fortunate to have experienced all of this for free, in a public school system, right here in the US. These experiences broadened my perspective, brought me out of a thick shell, and got me hooked on exploring the universe.
We worked on this project throughout the school year, and it counted as the final exam grade in all courses. We even did an annual culminating project that required us to do original research to answer a question no one ever had before. The same five teachers for all four years, who became our mentors over time, and the same 20 classmates, who became my best friends. It was amazing: college-level chemistry, calculus, literature, and geography interdisciplinary coordination of all four subjects (e.g., we studied logic in math class while covering rhetoric in language and holding debates in a US government course) video conferences with topic experts simulcast to all participating schools a half-dozen field trips each year the opportunity to participate on a FIRST robotics team, which was just a magical experience. "I got into my state's 'gifted' high school program, which, unlike most of its kind, included all four core subjects instead of just math and science. Being singled out as "gifted" sometimes put students who may have gone under-stimulated in a perfect position to excel and broaden their perspective at a pace that suited them. Of course, not everyone had a bad experience. These ended up not being very well thought of by authority figures."Ģ1.
GIFTED KID BURNOUT REDDIT FULL
Even though I was a full academic year ahead, I was still not very intellectually stimulated, so I started trying to find ways to keep myself amused. You'll be back in time for the test and still get the highest grade in the class, which will make me hate you even more.'" I'm going to send you to in-school suspension for one day this week, meaning you'll miss one of those classes.
Gifted Student, you're going to get this in five minutes and sit in the back corner reading for the rest of the week while I get more and more angry and yell at you for not paying attention. "'We're going to spend a week's worth of classes learning one concept. Gifted kids don't necessarily have a lot of common sense." "It was boring until I discovered drugs and sex since I was acing all my classes anyway. Boredom may even have caused them to act out or get in trouble. Now I'm 40, I left engineering years ago, and I'm about to release my first album. One of my advisors even told me it would be OK for me to leave to go to music school. "I wish I had figured that out while getting my aero degrees. TL DR: Just because you're smart enough to be a rocket scientist, that doesn't mean you have to be one." still get a lot of family members asking why I'm not doing XYZ job that they think I'd be perfect for. It took me years to come to terms with the fact that I'm allowed to do what makes me happy, not what people expect because 'you have so much potential.' When I applied to music school, my mother's friends openly criticized her for letting me do it, because they couldn't understand why I wasn't moving into a 'brainy' career path like medicine or law. The pressure to continue to succeed has even pushed some people down the wrong path or into a career they weren't even interested in. For all your life, you've identified as the 'smart one' now you have no idea."ġ8. "When people start doing better than you and you become more average, you start becoming a bit disconnected with who you are as a person. I feel like I was wrongly chosen as 'gifted' and that I am a complete waste of resources." I was given a head start early in life, but now I'm sort of back to average. "My self-esteem, self-worth, and happiness are being sucked up by this void feeling of mediocrity creeping into my life. Sometimes it gets really scary and hard, doubting who I am and what I am capable of and how I fit with the rest of the world." "I've been thinking so often ever since I left for university: What if I'm NOT smart? What if I'm just a self-centered little prick who spends too much time comparing herself to others? There's no real problem with not being as smart as others, but being 'the smart kid' was part of my identity for so long. Some people even said they had an identity crisis.
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