IQ 139, and nobody's noticed:
gifted David, two expulsions, 38 blame
David struck a window, smashed a sink, bullying classmates, teachers heckled. Twice he was expelled from school, has at least managed to secondary school. Recently made the 16-year-old with an IQ test. Results: The boy is gifted.
drove in the sixth grade, David * "youthful prank" as he calls it himself. "We have our teacher almost brought to tears," he pushes behind after brief reflection, he then jokes sounded too dangerous. In seventh grade, he struck a window and smashed a sink. "Before, I thought, horny action," David says as he pulls it a mouth angle. Actually, he thinks he is still.
If David, 16, tells of his school career, is classified a "horny action" on the other. He is now reproduce on a vocational school, where it can 2012 Secondary school. He flew twice from school, was shown by a classmate, 38 received criticism, which should reach his mother, arrived with her but only rarely. In his right calf, he has "St. Pauli" scratched with a toothpick, a bottle of vodka the other night. " The skin on his left forearm, he slit open with a razor blade.
End of November, David made an IQ test. Score: 139 points. David is very talented.
He sits at home at the dining table by the window you can see a windmill and the dike. The house stands in a village near Hamburg, Pinneberg. While David talks of tearful teachers and smashed sink, his mother looks at a brochure of the Federal Ministry of Education, "Gifted children and find support." In the chapter "What can the school for gifted students," states that "Every Child for the optimal development of their individual personality help, the job of government to the school."
David gradually developed into a school failures
Underachiever, providing significant minority, educational researchers, children and young people like David, students can develop their talent does not remain in terms of services, increased knowledge and personal development of their potential. In studies, they usually appear as a dark figure on - they are rarely detected in German schools.
David graduated from the elementary school with an average of 1.7. His teacher recommended him and his mother secondary school, although he also can go to high school. A typical case: an estimate of a student teacher's learning conditions as bad, they also advise on good notes at the lower of school. And even if not, send parents who themselves have no high school, their children often do not go to grammar school, despite a recommendation.
In the summer before David came to the junior high school, his parents separated. The same in the fifth grade his grades began to deteriorate in the sixth and its behavior. David began to develop in the school failure: In the eighth grade, he expressed glue on the chair of the class teacher, who came and sat down again. A classic that's funny only to those who did not stick in front of 30 teenage youths on a chair behind.
Class A conference was called, his mother, she felt as a "trial". David has been for a week from the School excluded. He then gained further censure, was sent to the training room should reflect his misconduct. Supervision had a teacher, a position for a social worker gets to school until next year. David should realize that he does something wrong that he is wrong.
After he had ten times in the training room, the next class meeting was convened.
He wrote a song about a classmate: "fucked Crack Bitch"
The ninth grade had to repeat it and was displayed by a classmate David had him held a knife to his neck. The police came to school, asked David, came to his Things. At noon the same day she stood outside the family home. Another student had reported that David had announced on the web has run amok. The stepfather is a hunter, the house is a gun cabinet. But that was closed, David says he has not threatened.
The display of the student was dropped, but this time there were more serious consequences than censure or meetings in the training room: David was expelled from school, a day before the half-year report in January 2010. He moved to a secondary school in the neighboring village.
"I was already a long time, always at home and I always feared that the next call comes from school," says his mother. When David first few was weeks on the new school, the phone rang. He had texted friends in music lessons with a rap song dedicated to a classmate. The song is a "a fucked up crack Bitch", a "mud monster". A friend put the video on the Internet, wrote to the girl's name and called David as author.
Why this song, David? "No idea, no one could stand her."
When David finished the ninth grade and the secondary school had an average grade of 1.3 in his pocket, he flew again from the school: The principal told him that he should spend the tenth grade at another school. It had been agreement, peaceful, says the rector. Three school psychologists
for 33 525 students
The capitulation of the school, he does not see the step. "The classes should not break a student." It is sometimes good to "educational press the Reset button.
David moved to the vocational school. There he was struck, turned cigarettes in class, disturb the teachers. But at this school has a social worker. The recalled "to a 16-year-old who does enormously mature thoughts on religion, values and norms".
It is true that David, who describes himself as an atheist, thinks about all sorts of things. "Moses was a crack smoker . Climbed the mountain, is to smoke crack, is "such a sentence, which he tosses in the conversation abruptly, his voice always sounds determined, doubts do not occur, he speaks in well-formulated sentences used, often foreign words - and has it but very little ... to say it is tragic, of how little he know can draw
Perhaps replaced David is one last chance
The worker David sent to the school psychological counseling, the district of Pinneberg, where it employs psychologists, more precisely, three psychologists for 33 525 students in general education schools. David took an IQ test, since he knows that he is highly gifted is.
"teachers often fail when detecting the Underachiever," says Detlef Rost, professor of psychology at the University of Marburg, which has more than any other in Germany and works with gifted children. He will not blame the teachers though. "Their educational mission is increasing, while the training and the conditions under which they must work, not better." There were also insurmountable limits: "Teachers can not go through an extensive training in diagnosis, such as psychologists."
What David has in mind when he learned of his talent? "Haha to all those who have called me stupid." As he says this, his mother leafs in the prospectus of a boarding school for gifted children. The school psychologist is trying to find the mother a way to finance a boarding school. David and she has recommended a psychologist in Hamburg. There he will begin a talk therapy.
It could be that David still gets a chance.
* Name changed by the editors
source. http://www.spiegel.de/schulspiegel/wissen/0, 1518,735969,00 html
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