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Hothousing and red-shirting isn't new. Red-shirting only prolongs the agony of grade school for a gifted child.

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I was self-taught with puzzle books and an adult dictionary and adult encyclopedia set that I'd read cover to cover in second grade. I spent grade school sitting in the principal's office because the teachers didn't know what to do with me, and I was profoundly lonely most of the time.