I recently went to a gifted conference in Sydney and one of the most useful things I heard was: emotional sensitivity is not the same as emotional immaturity. I found that enormously freeing. In the school system, it's often easier to give kids more "time" so that they can emotionally and socially mature and this is often used as an excuse for not galloping through grades. But I would only agree with this if this extra "time" is used to help develop strategies that address the sensitivities themselves. But of course few schools do this.
Hmmm... not sure that's terribly clear. But don't mistake one for the other and don't allow the teacher to either... jojo
