That seems to really be the question these days. Conform to Common Core, Conform to the educational stigma on gifted children, Conform to donating to the school that breaks your child and doesn't build him up...conform conform conform. I teach my children to use common sense over intelligence, empathy over roboticism, compassion over cowardness...and I think sometimes I'm the only one who is proud when I hear my child "questioned authority". Anyone else like this or am I alone in my thinking?