There are certain kids I refer to as High Creatives. These children are usually unlikely to succeed in the traditional school system. They may or may not have extremely high IQs as we measure them with traditional IQ tests. Just as an aside, creativity is only correlated with IQ up to 115. Then it quickly stops being related to our traditional measures of intelligence. Also, just as important, empathy and emotional intelligence hardly correlate at all with our standard IQ tests. These truths should not be taken lightly.
What happens to our kiddos who don't "measure-up"? They tend to develop self-limiting beliefs that hold them back from fulfilling their souls desires. More often than not, these children grow up believing they are dumb, and many of them end up believing they are bad. I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with children who believed they were dumb and incompetent because they did not learn in the traditional way. These children often were lost in class, and would find other ways to engage their own creative drives. At time those activities lead to disruption or messy spills or misuse of materials that lead to punishment. Because teachers didn't see these high creatives for the incredible gifts they held, they wound up feeling inferior. What a terrible legacy our public education has left for our highly creative children.
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