To Pink Marble, There's No Gift About It

My Pink Marble is extremely intelligent. I am not just saying that because I am her mother either. She is, by far, one of the most talented children I have ever known. In her short school career so far she has earned several awards and have been on the straight A Honor Roll.

Last week I found out that Anna had her test for the gifted program at school and completely bombed the test. The administrator of the test was baffled as to why she did so poorly. So the other day I asked her if she had her test (acting like i didn't know the results) and she said she did. Then I asked her how she did on it and she told me she didn't know..... So i said, "Well they said you didn't score well enough to be placed in gifted." And her response was.....

"Well, I gave the wrong answers because I don't want to be gifted."

Ummmm... Ok..... It's not like be labeled gifted is a bad thing... it's not like they said she's being tested to see if she has warts on her face.

So when I asked her why she doesn't want to be "gifted" she replied, "I will get scholarships for U of M even if I am not in that dumb program." Umm.. she's in 2nd Grade and already talking about college scholarships. She followed that statement with, "And anyway, I am student teacher in my class." When asked what that meant, she told me that during Math she goes up to the board and helps the other kids in her class with their math problems because math is, "soooooooooooooooooooooooooo easy".