I might be suffering from the same kind of blinders described in the article/underlined by ABQMom (I think we all like to think we are normal, or rather the lazy proposition is to assume people think the way you do) but:
they wanted to be loved for who they were and not what they could do; they wanted intelligent teachers who understood how to really teach and go at the student's pace; they wanted to be surrounded by age-mates and adults who appreciated them the way they were, understood them, and cared about them.
Duh?
I had the same reaction to an article posted a while back about managing bright people. I mean, isn't treating other people with respect something that works with everybody, not those who make the cutoff of a standard score of 130 on an IQ test?
