[Ohiogift] Gifted in Canada

[Margaret DeLacy]

Friends:

below is a link to and excerpt from an article that appeared in the Calgary Herald last month.

Margaret

http://calgaryherald.com/life/swerve/gifted-children-are-frequently-misunderstood

For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications
Marcello Di Cintio, Swerve	
Published on: January 30, 2015 | Last Updated: February 2, 2015 1:34 PM MST


....Nearly all teachers and parents of gifted students, however, consider congregated [self-contained] classrooms essential. “People say it teaches the kids not to get along in the real world,” Aldred says. “I believe it is about survival.” Gifted kids need a place where they can feel safe and accepted for all their various intensities. A place where they can be themselves, quirks and all.
Janice Robertson agrees: a congregated gifted program may well have saved her son’s life. Janice had long been concerned about Mark (both their names have been changed). He was an exceptionally smart kid who taught himself to read by the time he was two years old. But a darkness always hung behind Mark’s brightness. “He would say things like, ‘I’m just going to hurt myself,'” Janice remembers. He used to bang his head on the floor and once, when he was three, pointed to a digger on a construction site and said, “I’m going to ask that digger to dig a hole and put us in it and bury us.”.....