Originally Posted by Cricket2
I guess that I don't want to believe that you can actually significantly diminish innate ability through poor educational fit b/c dd11 has never had a stellar educational fit and that would cause a lot of guilt!


I think it *is* possible, but it would be more a scenario along the lines of "brought up by wolves" rather than "was bored in class for years".

If your daughter has access to a decent library she will probably be fine wink. Or her brain will be, anyway.