I see your point, but what about asynchronous behavioral development and gifted sensitivities? She was nine at the time. We champion our kids' rights to be accepted in spite of their quirks, and yet a nine year old is not allowed to be socially awkward?
Not all gifted kids are extroverts and strong leaders. In fact, there's a statistical correlation between LOG and introversion - the higher the former, the greater the percentage of the latter. Why should my daughter's math talents have gone undeveloped because she's an introvert and not comfortable telling other people what to do?
They can make gifted "leadership" programs for the gifted leaders. This program was for MATH.
Quirky people are scary. Introverted people are confusing.
Also, non-extroverted gifted people who can't tell other people what to do simply aren't cut out for the modern global financial hypereconomy.
I'm pretty sure they're obsolete.
It's not clear what should be done with obsolete people, but it would be silly to put an obsolete student into a gifted program.
