Please note that mostly those things ARE taught in elementary and middle school, and at the time, they are skills that gifted children find that they simply do not NEED. They seem ridiculous and slow. Why bother, right? They can remember everything and keep it all straight without any of those clunky tools...
until they can't, and at that point everyone expects that after four years of exposure, they'll have it down.
That's when we as parents sometimes have to step in and say "oh yeahhhhhhh... remember that stuff that they showed you back in 5th grade? The stuff that you didn't need then? About writing down the main idea? About recording the reading in your planner?"
