I think that one of the liabilities of growing up gifted is that much of the time when one is being corrected ... the adult or bigger kid who is correcting you is actually wrong. This is backwards from the typical experience.
I can truly relate to your statement, Grinity. I still have serious authority issues as an adult because so many of the people in authority over me as a child were wrong so often.
My dd8 is running into the same problem at school in science. Her level of knowledge is so far above the level of science taught in the elementary school that she often knows more than the teacher. I think this actually started in preschool. Recently she had the following multiple choice question on a science quiz:
What state of matter is the sun?
a. energy
b. gas
c. liquid
d. solid
She wrote plasma to the side. It does seem strange that elementary students are not taught about the most common state of matter in the universe.
