Its worse than that. High spirited children have been terrorized by our schools for over a century. That's 15% of the population. Includes gifted children. You think being gifted is a blessing? Think again, the system flat out tortures the gifted. The real reason for special schooling for the gifted is not advanced studies, it is rescue from the system. They told me to put my gifted, active alert first grader on medication, so he would sit still in class, they didn't give a damn that he wouldn't be able to learn anything in a medicated zombie state, all they care is running their program. What's wrong with heavily medicating 6 year olds every school day? Well, it actually is worse than what they did to this 7 year old... high spirited kids are attacked every day by the system. Henry Winkler (the Fonz on "happy Days") peed his pants everyday all through elementary school; that's called terrorized.
I moved to the outer suburbs with no money and just like that, no more problems with the schools. You get what you pay for with teachers, and you get serious abuse from every poor area school district.