<p>"If you have a very bright student, home-school him." </p>
<p>"If you have a very bright student, homeschool him."
If the courses consist of nothing more than busywork - yes.</p>
<p>"When you go to Virginia Tech, you have to go to class and fill out your lab reports," a discipline that, if nothing else, public schools instill in students who are awake.</p>
<p>Wow. Sorry I don't feel sorry for this kid.
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He got an F one quarter because he didn't do 65 percent of the 18 assignments,
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And the parents justify that? He could have probably pulled the good grades easily and done the extra work as well. Well maybe I do feel sorry for him - I think the parents dropped the ball here by installing the attitude that it was ok to go to the school and not nother to do the work assigned. I would not have admitted him either.</p>
<p>What he did was inexpedient in today's admission environment, but not without good precedent. </p>
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<p>swimcatsmom,
I have posted about this here before, but I advised a student with stellar testing to drop out of our local high school (a truly oppressive place) toward the end of Junior year. He didn't have a 3.0 average, largely because he and his teachers all knew he was smarter than they were. Some wanted to punish him, pure and simple. He also had no tolerance for busy work.
A program for Chicago Public School students, and available to home schoolers under state law and the good grace of the University, allowed him to take two courses at the University of Chicago, where he showed very well, and where there is no such thing as busy work, as far as I can tell.
He applied and was admitted to Amherst College, where he also has had no busy work, and where he has not been punished for being smart.
My own bias is that to waste anyone's time, particularly children's, is next to criminal.
I strongly recommend tokenadult's link, which is self-collected and which has helped give me backbone over the years, when my kids have been way beyond me in self assurance and courage.</p>
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<p>And the parents justify that? He could have probably pulled the good grades easily and done the extra work as well. Well maybe I do feel sorry for him - I think the parents dropped the ball here by installing the attitude that it was ok to go to the school and not nother to do the work assigned. I would not have admitted him either.
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<p>Yes, I agree that the values were no instilled there, but I can also see clearly that the system, or the lack of support for a gifted child, has failed this family. And that is not fair .</p>
<p>danas, you post is almost scary and hits so close to home.
I make sure than my child is challenged daily, but to acomplish this he has to "do things" after school. Academic things. This is not fair to my child!
At school, even though I try very hard to make it known to the teachers that he needs to be challenged more than thay are already challenging him, but it seems to go nowhere.</p>
<p>Many smart students in my city attend Stanton College Preparatory School, which is and has been in the top 10 public high schools for many years. In fact, it used to be number 1.</p>
<p>I used to go there, only I didn't quite make it. Now I'm homeschooled and it's probably a better alternative because there's an excessive amount of work to do (which is far harder than busywork, especially for the IB kids).</p>