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How Chasing Perfect Gifted Education Can Destabilize Children

I moved my kid to three different schools trying to find the right gifted program and now she has anxiety about making friends because she knows we might move again if she is not challenged enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pursuit of optimal intellectual challenge has sacrificed emotional security and stability.

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“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”

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