Yeah, we have to find a way to have an honest dialogue so that we can talk about the needs of gifted students, without offending anyone who might not be firmly in that category depending on the experts doing the determinations at the time.
It is really hard to get people to understand that any society might be failing the brightest, most sensitive minds, because so many other factors figure into society. And, if a gifted person is not able to speak up and if no one speaks for them, then we have missed opportunities.
I think it is possible that gifted people might be happiest in a merit based environment. When you enter a truly merit based environment, everyone is represented, in fact you spend your initial period together sizing each other up trying to figure out what you have in common. It might just be that IQ does not have a direct correlation to any one 'profile.' Gifted people are born all over the globe.
