Summary
Dear Abby: Your advice to "Smart Seventh-Grader" (Sept. 26) was supportive but didn't address the heart of her problem. Many years ago I was that little girl. No one had explained to me there is a difference between knowing the answer to the teacher's questions and knowing how to think.
Her teachers and friends already know she knows all the answers. She has nothing to prove, so you should have told her to set herself an intellectual goal of asking questions in class that will spark the imaginations of other students and deepen the discussion.See the full content of this document
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Be Smart, but Don't Show-Off
When she can't do that, she can sit quietly and let the teacher interact with others who don...
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