The teacher may its not be able to do that. I definitely would like to think that a percentage of school library budgets are devoted to these children. Their range of ability is so advanced, and if the collection is entirely weighted to average readers, or below average readers, that will leave out this population for sure. It takes extra effort on the part of a librarian to develop a collection that is age appropriate and still challenging and interesting. That s not a censorship issue so much as an education issue.
Many gifted children are voracious readers.
It s not uncommon for these kids to check out five to ten books a week and actually read them all. What I hear most, in terms of frustrations from parents, are that gifted children are actually held back in reading. Let me tell you one funny anecdote from my teaching days. I was teaching a pull-out program and the first day of class a second grader came in with one of the Hobbit books. I got bored in here.