Originally Posted by Lina
Ha. One kid I know who had a 770 SAT-M in 7th grade was rejected from a gifted program just because the teacher refused to recommend him due to "behavior issues". The only thing he did wrong was correct the teacher whenever he thought the teacher made a mistake. Which happened quite often. (And most of the time, the kid was right)

I've seen this with my 12 year old son, and it makes me really angry. Of course our school has no 'gifted program' so at least they can't hold that over his head! Luckily for my son (skipped 5th entirely, but we had to move him to a private school to get that, then he moved back to public this year for 8th) this year in 'honors' Algebra I, he has a teacher who is tickled pink that he corrects her, and is usually right. I'm so impressed with this teacher for 'being a bigger person.'

Smiles,
Grinity

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