Warning: soapbox..... This is also why I get so frustrated by teachers and family members who constantly dismiss DS's learning needs by insisting that "He MUST learn to get along in the real world." Well, actually, mostly, no. I am quite confident that the moment he is allowed to escape his public school box, he will put himself into a reality of his own choosing - and it will NOT involve spending all day every day trapped in a room with people with whom he has no shared interests, listening to a one-way drone of highly linear, repetitive, shallow and slow-moving information about things he knew years ago and don't interest him even vaguely. Your reality, lady, not his.
Yes, Yesss, Yesssss!
Pet peeve! Together with "he must learn to work with people of average intelligence, he'll have to do it all his life." Sorry, lady, not as equals on a team, he won't. Non gifted, but bright, highly educated experts in their field? Right. But that's it.
