I am a gifted and talented student, and i am constantly pressured to do much much better. however, i don't want to. i procrastinate, i'm lazy, ambition less, the only reason i am GT is because i had a college level vocab in third grade( I read a lot).I just want to be in the middle of the pack. my question is, is it right to always push kids so hard, even if they don't want to.

J_9

This is one of the pitfalls that I warn parents about when labeling their children gifted. Many may be gifted only until, say, middle school for example, when they level off, or their peers catch up with them.

I personally don't think it is right to push children and let them learn and do things at their own pace and pretty much in their own time.

Is there a counselor you can talk to at school?

Varoth

Well that was my problem, in middle school i started noticing, hey they are a lot of kids who are smarter than me, and when i started getting average grades my parents went nuts, and that was when the s*** hit the fan. My grades started slipping, and i have stayed afloat these past 5 years, i have trouble handing stuff in, and my parents reaction to this was " Your gifted, you should be doing so much better", and they diagnosed me with ADHD (for which i took a bunch of different meds, none of them worked, and i took myself off this year and have been just fine) I have social issues, and i just can't seem to get it to click to start getting things done. And I have just started to go to cyber school (21st century cyber charter school) and I have been told by my father numerous times, that i'm a piece of s***, that i'm going to military school, and that i'm worthless, although that was all in the heat of the moment(my mom is definitely more supportive than that , but she agrees that i'm screwing up bad). I just can't seem to get to work.


And thats my biggest personal issue in my life, in one neat, and compact paragraph.

P.S. J_9, your profile pic kicksa**
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