Today's OneWord: Gifted

Every parent that I talked to at the conference did not like what I had to say about their child. It the same spiel with all of them: That their son or daughter was gifted, that they had something special about them, and clearly I simply did not understand who they were, and thus it explained all the reasons why they were flunking in their biology and chemistry classes. I, of course, took it all in stride, and I let each mother and father rant at me as if letting it all out was cathartic and therapeutic - even if in the end, in regards to the pupil's problems, it solved nothing.