EandC, sounds like your kids have a wonderful situation. Hopefully it's not too unique and others experience that as well!
Kriston,
I saw what you saw in K and first for both girls. Second was much better for DD8. There is one first grade teacher that provides a pretty good classroom environment, let's hope DD5 lucks out.
There is a HG magnet that I suspect would be more of an environment like EandC mom describes. It starts in 4th grade.
If you are talking intellectual peers......our district's dual level GT program attracts a lot of highly intelligent families, so there is probably more than our share of peers. The problem is that in the past, they have split them up in different classrooms. This was the first year that I observed them together in the same class for DD8's grade. If the administators are very concerned with social and emotional issues like they present themselves to be, they really should be letting these kids stay together.
