Yet, these are often among the first programs cut. Gifted students are a precious resource. Money spent on them is an investment in the future which is equal in importance to any other school program. Gifted children burn out early, and develop emotional problems leading to unhappy and friendless adulthoods. Individuals in Terman's study made on average four times as much income as the typical American.
Gifted children are physically weak and sickly.
This has been documented numerous times starting with Lewis Terman. Accelerating a gifted child ahead in school creates serious emotional and social problems. In fact, gifted students who are not accelerated are often bored and fail to develop good study habits or become arrogant because school work requires so little effort. When placed with other gifted students, a gifted child may experience for the first time what it is like to have a true peer group. Gifted children become Einsteins or creative geniuses.