our school ended up dropping renzuli and hiring a half computer/half enrichment teacher whose job is to run around the K-6 school and talk to the kids who need more and give teachers packets/etc for their classroom use. She doesn't have time to do a lot - esp. as she's also responsible for full-classroom enrichment for EVERYone, but she's been there two years now and I can see a difference in the quality of the homework my second son brings home in first compared to my first son's life in first. I know a half-time teacher is a lot more expensive than the Renzuli program... but it got passed in our anti-education town despite years of near-zero budgets, b/c we had about 5-6 families show up at a school board meeting to discuss the problem of the advanced kids getting nothing. I was really shocked at how few people it took to light a fire under the board - I think usually parents don't show, at least here, and they certainly don't organize and bring in signed letters and have several people speak.
