I seriously feel like "oh but they need to play and be children" is used as a weapon against parents of gifted kids where I live. Well of COURSE they do. But they also need to be educated and their play may not look the way you think it should...I am sick to death of the obsession with learning in a concrete fashion through play and refusal to talk about abstract concepts and provide directed conceptual instruction (which is somehow harmful to their growin minds you know). Where is the sane balance in education? Why does it have to be all play or no play? Whole of language or dogmatic phonics? Etc...
