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<p>That’s why gifted programs are so important, so that these students understand how to work hard. And they understand how to try and fail and try again. This is something most students learn in elementary school - how to work hard, how to persevere. They need to learn how to take chances and how to ask for help.</p>
<p>My DS took a dozen AP course in HS and never broke a sweat. His english teachers gave him 100’s on his essays and never had a comment on how to improve his work. The first time he was challenged was his senior year in college taking graduate level courses, and he almost crashed because he had never really learned how to deal with this.</p>
<p>Too often “gifted programs” are just more work. They should not be just more work, they should be different work. Simply assigning 200 pages to read or 4 hours of homework does not make a gifted program</p>