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Is this the point where someone gets to be a Spanish Peacock??


My DH and DD are constantly trading Highlander insults. If it isn't Highlander, it's Monty Python. <sigh>

Well, I was inspired to dig around after Bostonian's post. It seems that most researchers with GT interests define "radical acceleration" as 3 or more years.

I've not heard the term "rapid" acceleration used before. I had heard "radical acceleration" used to describe a single gradeskip, however-- context, there, being that this was a regular educator without experience/interest in HG children.

It's just interesting to me how the term is a bit more slippery than I had thought.

But since learning makes me happy, I'm good. Ambiguity is fine. I'm just nosy.