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When Gifted Students Lose Motivation and Disengage from Learning

My teenage daughter is brilliant but she has started saying school is pointless and I can see her shutting down intellectually and I do not know how to reach her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mismatch between a young person's intellectual capacity and the educational environment's limitations creates existential questioning that can lead to withdrawal.

Ideas that help explain it
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