All of these stories of kids not being appropriately challenged and their levels not changing is beginning to sound suspect.
I would personally not be surprised at all; I graduated high school a few years ago, and although I did not know how gifted I was up until a few months ago, the vast majority of my educators couldn't have cared less about my need for a more rigorous and challenging course load. Unfortunately, my story is the rule and not the exception; the present day education system is an enterprise of egalitarian, collectivist claptrap that does not recognize individual needs and is dominated by the Howard Gardner multiple intelligence school of thought.
