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Current example: A friend of mine telling her very intelligent son that he has to do boring schoolwork because life isn't fair.
It occurs to me to ask her whether a good gifted and talented program is available.
Hmm? I know I'm no-one to tell you those things and it might sound odd coming from a stranger, but... please try persuading her to attend to the kid's special needs somehow. Ideally, I believe, he should be learning what he loves plus things useful in any career like logic and social skills, with moderate challenge and in the company of like-minded peers... but really, any improvement over either the boredom of standard "education" or the strain of a Japanese-style cram school would be fine. It pains me to see smart children burning out, because it happened to me too.
I've talked with her. Her son is already in a Gifted and Talented program, but they're still expecting too much busy work from him-- he's good at learning things that he's interested in the first time he hears them, and doesn't need drilling.
He's got two years more of high school to go.
I've convinced her that it's worthwhile to work on convincing the school that they should modify the program into something that's better for him, and also that it's good for him to learn about advocacy as well as (instead of?) accommodation. I think she cares enough that this isn't going to fall off the to do list, but I'll ask again in a couple of months.
Thanks for pushing about this.
Great. That's going to brighten up a very very shitty day I'm having, BTW. I got my father moderately angry and disappointed in me for an insubstantial reason (he's OK but kind of emotional and has annoying expectations), and then my mom phoned from work in tears to say that her cat electrocuted itself somehow. I have just got very high on coffee to numb emotion and am browsing LW right now until I can take a peek at reality again.
Me, I've burned out many times in school. Each time it happened, I was sent to psychiatrists as punishment.