ABSTRACT
Zack Monroe was 11 years old, in sixth grade, and participating in a selective program for academically talented students when we first interviewed him. The only child of a single mother, Zack has very little contact with his father. Because of the extra homework he is required to do for his academic program, Zack no longer goes after school to the community center he attended when he was younger. Instead, his mother allows him to spend time on his own so that he can go to the library and concentrate on his schoolwork.
