That's why I felt advocacy is important. The school system or the teacher may not have had experience with a highly gifted child. Until the parents work closely with them it's not fair to them either to understand the special needs from this population. Many teachers have talented and/or gifted training but most t&g students are good listeners and this population is the easiest to teach in many ways and, I feel, maybe have greater chance to be high achievers eventually. The challenge to me was that I feel uncomfortable to emphasize the difference between 99.9% kids and 95% t&g kids, when the school staff is proud of their t&g program and makes me look over concerned. Anyway I feel there are more challenges ahead but I have high hope on the whole thing.
Btw, I like the "fortify the child" part.
Thanks!
