Stories of Gifted Students

Why do academically gifted students transfer from public schools? Why do they underachieve; consciously or subconsciously? What problems do they encounter at school? How are their relationships with the adults? Do their family lives have an impact on their success at school? This book concentrates on problem issues and answers these questions. It reveals information that will allow parents and educators to better understand various experiences of gifted high school students by studying the reasons and needs of their transferring behavior from public schools to an alternative school. No previous study has traced the transferring behavior of gifted high school students. This study reveals the negative academic and social effects of traditional education at public schools for gifted students and shows the benefits of appropriately planned educational programs that challenged these students. The gifted students of this study speak out and show how their educational experiences have influenced their achievement and contentment at school and how no matter what happened at school and in their lives they resisted dropping out of school.