I live in a rural area with only one public school and no private schools. Kids like mine who are verbally gifted are seen as being obnoxious, smarty pants, scary smart, etc. just because they use a high level vocabulary and ask lots of questions. It is just the way things are here and we are supposed to learn to live with it.
The attitude toward my child was especially difficult to deal with at the small town church we went to for a while. I had asked that he be allowed to attend a class with his friend who was three years older. My son was about eight at the time. They didn't like it but they allowed it. I had an uncomfortable feeling about it so I listened outside the classroom for a little while. My son answered one of her questions that the other older kids didn't. I found out that he could read better than the other kids. I heard the teacher ask what kind of Bible he was using at home and he told her that it was a children's Bible. He liked it because it was kind of like an encyclopedia and had lots of extra information in it. The teacher, who sounded irritated, told him he should not be using it and that he should be using an adult Bible. In my opinion, she was the obnoxious one. We just don't fit in here.
