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John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Three year olds can't read

"she was always in trouble in school because she was so bored."

Few teachers or educators are geared up to understander that "special needs" works for both ends of the ability spectrum. Special needs is almost always taken to mean helping the slow kids. The clever kids are usually noticed, but the really really clever kids get ignored, often because, as you say, they get so bored they end up being as disruptive as the worst of the slow kids.

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