Sofia Romanoli shows amazement at a set of nested dolls in a class for gifted first-graders at Mount Pleasant Elementary School. In the Brandywine district, gifted kindergarten through third-grade students attend Mount Pleasant, then move on to Claymont Elementary.Bored and frustrated, some gifted students may earn poor grades because they have grown apathetic about their school work or because they lack the study skills they never needed to acquire to keep up as younger learners, advocates of gifted students say. "Clearly there's a problem there," said Jill Adrian of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, a nonprofit founded to serve neglected and underserved gifted and talented children. "If we don't meet the needs in the classrooms, they often tune out." The News Journal (Del.)
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