I think that there&#x27;s plenty of intelligent kids who are able to devote part of their intelligence to noticing the whole lord of the flies going around and figuring that it&#x27;s better to not raise you hand when teacher asks question (because answering it won&#x27;t give you anything (besides grade which is useless) and can paint crosshair on your back) and figuring that it&#x27;s better to be useful to reasonable group so you can hide among them, and figuring whom to hide from and how. I don&#x27;t think intelligent kids are more maladjusted to average environments. It&#x27;s just this is much more visible when smart kid is in trouble. When average kid fails to pay attention to their surroundings they are just bullied looser kids. I think there&#x27;s proportionally more of such people than bullied looser geniuses.<p>Schools are just not healthy environments. Not only for gifted.