Studies from around the globe confirm the detrimental effect of a gifted mind left unchallenged, proving that “busy work” does more than simply leave the child bored. A Greek study found that gifted children will regularly underperform academically against their peers later in life, despite a heightened skill set. Not being challenged, interested or needing to put in effort sets up gifted children to be poor scholars as they won’t have learned a skill that their peers did in elementary school: how to study.
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When the ‘gifted’ kids aren’t all right
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Studies from around the globe confirm the detrimental effect of a gifted mind left unchallenged, proving that “busy work” does more than simply leave the child bored. A Greek study found that gifted children will regularly underperform academically against their peers later in life, despite a heightened skill set. Not being challenged, interested or needing to put in effort sets up gifted children to be poor scholars as they won’t have learned a skill that their peers did in elementary school: how to study.
Continue reading here: https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/22/23322571/gifted-kid-education-without-funding-leads-to-burn-out
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