“Why should only kids who struggle get their needs met?” asks Nancy Green of Bethesda, an MCPS parent who is executive director of the National Association for Gifted Children.
(sigh) That won't work.
Gifted kids struggle too, and the uninitiated need to know this.
It's not about better or worse, smarter or less smart. It's about a cognitively and socially appropriate environment. Gifted kids who don't have their intellectual and emotional sensitivities understood and supported suffer just as much as the remedial learners who can't learn mainstream curriculum.
We're outnumbered, unfortunately, and I think it may be a losing battle.
