What is meant by anti-social? Since the teacher is the source of "order" in the room, the real threat is to the teacher's authority.
I think this is definitely on possibility. It may be as simply as an inquisitive child, who is always asking why, disturbing the perceived structure of the learning environment (as opposed to an open learning environment where questions create the structure)? Or it may be that the teachers are unfamiliar with the asynchronous development of highly gifted kids? They therefore assume that if a child is advanced in reading or math, then they should be advanced in all other areas and measure them accordingly.
What I found particularly interesting is that they could reduce this type of negative feeling towards gifted kids by educating the teachers on the characteristics of gifted kids and their learning needs!
Where do we sign our teachers up?
