Gifted children??

Question

Ok I was supposed to be in gifted but my rents' wouldn't let me. Now I am Thinking back to elementary school and thinking how big of a jerks these kids are.... Any one else ever felt this way. No offense to nice gifted people....

Answer 1

You mean you think the gifted kids were jerks? Nah, I don't think so. A lot of gifted kids are socially awkward because they can't relate well to their peers but I don't think they're mean on purpose.

Answer 2

i mean some people are arrogant pricks, but that's just who they are.  i agree with the other posters- i got more cr@p from everyone else who just assumed stuff.  gifted class was a blast though, maybe they were jealous, who knows.

Answer 3

anybody could be a jerk, gifted or not, of course -- it's quite possible the kids you are thinking of were.

but my experience is that gifted kids generally (obviously not in all cases) tend towards being shy and awkward, and are probably less likely than other kids to be the "jerks" or bullies or anything.

Answer 4

no one was a jerk 2 me, sum r always hey morgan!! yeah your back!!!!! whenever i get back to homeschool

Answer 5

Where I live gifted classes are only one day a week. The kids are in regular classes the rest of the time. The one day is used for thinks totally different than the regular work and I think just for mind stimulation. My grand daughter just finished 5th grade and goes into middle school next year. She enjoyed gifted classes but it wasn't the focus of the week. None of the kids she was with were jerks other than the ones who were jerks all the time.

My son (her uncle) felt the same way you did I think. He was really against her being in gifted as he thought it would make her stand apart from the other kids. Maybe make the other kids think she's a geek or call her one or what ever. It seemed to work for her but I think after grade school it might be different.

Answer 6

Some are jerks. For me it was my teacher who was a jerk.

Answer 7

I'm gifted too and I don't well... appreciate the way kids called me 'gifted' because they were all like, 'Oh... she's so smart.', 'I don't get it where's the gifted girl.' and 'I'm smart too, I should be like her.' I just don't like it...

I just think differently, not better. I just excel at school. Gifted is just a special part of me. Luckily, I had great friends who didn't treat me like that. They missed me even though it ws just only a day. They treated me the same. They were just amazing.

Answer 8

I agree with you, even though I am gifted. I am in a special class called PEN in my school. The other kids there are s****.  and I really hate people like that!

Answer 9

I was in a gifted class in elementary, and honestly, it's the other kids who are jerks. We honestly didn't think we were any better than them, we just had different strengths. Yet not a recess went by without a gifted kid getting picked on, as hard as we tried it was hard to make friends outside of our class. Which eventually made everyone dislike us more, because they thought we were s****. and cliquey...

Anyway, every school is different, and it's too bad those kids were jerks.