Should I be doing everything I can to set her up to find the cure to cancer, but perhaps suffer blows to her self-esteem in a class of highly capable kids? Or should I let her follow my example and sail along at the top of the regular class, even if she admits that she doesn't use her big words at school because kids don't like it and teachers don't believe she knows what they mean?
I think that depends on her personality.
In my case, it would have been appropriate to put me in with people who I couldn't intellectually overwhelm like I was sandblasting soup crackers.
That would have possibly avoided my current sense of permanent catastrophic failure and enabled me to actually developing some psychological resiliency.
