Have some read this article?
Headline - If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person
Link - http://www.slate.com/articles/doubl...d_people_send_their_kids_to_private.html

The author specifically mentions gifted kids will be fine in sub-par schools. Possibly she is unaware of the damaging social and emotional consequences of lack of academic challenge and lack of true peers?

There seem to be inconsistencies regarding her feelings and beliefs about involved/uninvolved parents?

Possibly while she laments not having been required to read much in school, she could be a life-long learner and create personal reading lists now?

How can parents encourage finding the best academic "fit" if her views are the prevalent ones in society?