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Imagine having every advantage, but the academics do not come easily to the student; that could make the child feel awful.
There are also gifted students to whom academics do not come easily, children without advantages who are gifted but lack opportunity, and many kids who are given impossible expectations to live up to rather than being accepted for who they are and/or who they wish to become. Everyone is different and all need some mix of support, affirmation, challenge.