Originally Posted by CFK
Originally Posted by Pru
My informal chart would go:

MG = Excels in school. Honors.
HG = Struggles in school. Bored in honors.
EG = Refuses to go to school.
PG = Already graduated. Fighting to get in to local university before age 15.

I love it! This is my new personal definition of gifted levels.
I'd suggest that this applies to gifted kids whose schools aren't making significant accommodations for them, though. My older HG one generally wasn't struggling in school and was a straight A honors student when she was allowed to start 6th grade a little before she turned 10. She was still bored in many honors classes, but not to the point that she refused to participate in the process.

I think that personality matters here, too. My older one cares a lot about grades and is not one who would blow things off even if it killed her and she was miserable crying non-stop. (We've been there.)

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