No matter how much slack I cut the facilitator...it still itches like discrimination, you know?
It is discrimination (distinguishing), but it is not UNJUST discrimination. They're not singling out your child. They're designing a program at a particular age group. I agree with Polar's observations. And I think it's quite important to recognize that no matter how gifted a child is, that does not always mean they will fit in well with older peers. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't, and it is not unreasonable for the people who are running programs to make their best guess on what will work rather than letting parents do so.
I don't think you should take this as a bad omen for the future. As your child grows, he will be eligible for a lot more things. It will become clearer to adults what he's like, because he will be more able to show them. Things that are impossible to negotiate for in elementary school become possible in middle. It goes along, and it changes as it goes.
