But isn't sending your child to a "gifted private school" a statement that "you are very smart, so much so that you need an education different from what average children get"?
This statement may express the views of critics of gifted education.
By contrast, a statement which proponents of gifted education may make might be: "
You are ready to take on a challenge, and unfortunately may lose that ability/readiness if you do not have the opportunity to embrace struggle and striving." Note this has no comparison to others, but rather is a statement about one's own developmental needs, and the ways in which the needs may match the available opportunity, and the potential negative consequences if one does not avail themselves of the challenging opportunity.
When I tell him he should try to become a competitive candidate for admission to the most selective colleges, that is another way telling him he is very smart.
Some may see this as a statement that a particular program of interest at any of these colleges may provide a challenge worthy of his potential, the proverbial
antelope for him to chase.
