Personally, I don't think gifted and bored is an excuse for disrespectful or defiant behavior. This is a problem that needs to be approached from both sides, the teacher who may need to find more engaging and/or challenging material and the child who will have to learn to cope with being bored at times. As a pp mentioned, there will be times in life when they will be bored, I'd also like to know what job or field to go into where I would never suffer from boredom. lol

I also agree that this seems to be a reoccuring problem in group settings that may need to be further looked into.

Last edited by mountainmom2011; 02/22/12 12:39 PM.