Boys in Primary Grade Classrooms

Deborah Ruf, PhD
3 min readJan 1, 2023

Part of the SCHOOL IS NOT REAL LIFE Series

A client couple asked me to observe their nearly five-year-old son in his small private school K-1 classroom (that’s kindergarten through 1st grade). Their little boy was already tested and found to be exceptionally gifted, so the small private school was willing to accept him into their program before he was five years old. But he hated school and wasn’t making…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com