This is a great post, Anne! Very helpful.

I'm just starting out the public school route. My son was earmarked for the highly gifted program in a prescreening they did in Kinder last year (the school's GATE teacher recommended him for it) but they said because of his age, they wanted to wait till this year when he's in 1st grade.

Now that they're done with the testing and the results are out, I'm hoping it helps paves the way.