Ellipses- it totally frustrates me that special Ed gets more attention than gifted too but I can see how the schools have their hands tied right now and we have to be the resourceful ones- right or wrong. So I get the most I can for my kid at school and find outside sources for the rest. When he is ready to just do the accelerated classes instead of going to a normal school with his friends he will. I suspect around middle school when his quirks will not be so overlooked by his peers- until then we have a healthy balance. I think he will probably enter college early at the rate he is going- by a few years but he also wants to be a kid while he can- so I accept the schools for their limitations and spend countless hours researching, buying books and reading this site for options for him.