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.
jojo - I think that you put this in a lovely way. I would add that for some kids, leaving them in classrooms where they don't relate to their agemates, and are 'talked down to' by the teachers isn't the reasurring and nurturing environment that emotinally sensitive need.
Smiles and Waves,
Grinity
