Gifted children's bad behaviour cured by smart classes. 2009 Archive

After decades of treating all pupils the same, schools in Scandinavia have started to provide special classes for highly intelligent children.
This follows research showing gifted children were often badly behaved and disruptive because they were bored in ordinary schools that were failing them.
Malcolm Brabant reports from Odense in Denmark.

Astons
Britta Albert, mother of gifted child
Pernille Buch Romer, Mentiqa Schools
Mikkel Albert, gifted child.

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[ChironCane]

Private schools are not a practical solution to this issue. Mmost of the "gifted" children that I have encountered come from under-privileged backgrounds. In time, the educational standards of privately run schools begin to sink to the level of the "lowest common denominator" as the economic realities become the main issue. You DON'T necessarily get what you pay for. The situation in the UK is a case in point ! The goalposts have been shifted by politicians to cover this up.

[ChironCane]

Not all gifted children become disruptive and in my years as a teacher I have noticed that many simply give up and fail to live up to their potential. There is a definite need for higher-level classes for those who can achieve much more through an innate ability or simple hard work although their intelligent feedback within the context of a mixed ability class can be absolutely invaluable but difficult to inspire. Not an easy problem to solve ... :-(