[maine-iac7]

This looks like a sweet and intelligent young man.

Years ago, when my sons were in school, I was involved with the Gifted Children programs - Most often, a child with high intelligence gets bored silly with the dumbed down curriculum of today's schools. They are likely to be, out of sheer boredom, the one's who "day dream" and/or become the class clown's -

The school's and teachers (and the teacher's are often less intelligent and resent these children - I even had the President of the California Dept. of Education say that to me!)

It is bordering on criminal what they have done to this young man.

They now bring criminal charges against parents for "verbal" abuse. Why wouldn't this fall into same criteria?

[pillut48]

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover—years ago I had the most angelic looking child in my class, smart as a whip—and I swear on a stack of Bibles, demon possessed...he would go off on other students for no reason, throwing desks over his head at them...cursing at them with language that would make a sailor blush, and guess what I was told by admin?

Ignore it. He’d been classified ‘special ed’ due to his behavioral problems and legally I couldn’t do *ANYTHING* to try to correct his behavior. Put up with that crap for half a year, until finally his parents had him institutionalized—the mom was pregnant and he would draw pictures of him stabbing the baby to death and make statements about all the horrible ways he planned to kill it after it was born—when he started saying he was going to cut it out of the mom, they locked him up. Order was restored to my classroom, finally, but those other students in my class were the ones who suffered because of his behavior.

Give the teachers the benefit of the doubt—until you hear their side of the story, you just never know.

[geezerwheezer]

I was the smartest boy in my 4th grade class (the fact that I was the only boy in my 4th grade class notwithstanding!)and when someone dd something wrong, I was ALWAYS the one blamed. Gee, did I miss something here? Tell the kid involved to STFU, and tell the teachers involved to grow up. Society would be better served if the parents involved would grow up as well! In short, who the hell cares about this?

[Graybeard58]

This looks like a sweet and intelligent young man.

I have pictures around here somewhere of my two boys when they were that age. Sweet and innocent? Looks can be deceiving. Fortunately for all concerned they grew up to be fine young men.

In accordance with the rules, I am pinging both my boys to this reply.

[Osage Orange]

This looks like a sweet and intelligent young man.

So did Ted Bundy....