But yeah, the situation for regularly gifted students is often as you say. And any school program that truly held them to higher standards would also end up penalizing them with lower grades that would make them look non-competitive to highly selective universities.
> but right now I don't think they are exposed to enough.
Except those in the bottom 25%. They are human too, and deserve a good, well-tailored education.
Actually, in my college dorm we had a guy who was only 16 who'd been accelerated. I wouldn't exactly say he was "bullied," but he didn't have a very easy time of it.
There are some magnet schools for highly gifted or aptitudinally talented students, including an online one: https://www.davidsongifted.org/the-davidson-academy/
But yeah, the situation for regularly gifted students is often as you say. And any school program that truly held them to higher standards would also end up penalizing them with lower grades that would make them look non-competitive to highly selective universities.
> but right now I don't think they are exposed to enough.
Except those in the bottom 25%. They are human too, and deserve a good, well-tailored education.