Honestly, I wish schools would get it that sometimes they have cause and effect backwards when it comes to behavior! I wish people in general understood that sometimes--not always--putting a GT kid with older kids is a plus in the socialization column!
I wish that too. I try to remind myself that I knew nothing about anything GT-related until my crash course in the realm of HG, and that most teachers/prinicipals are trained to deal with the majorities, not the fringes. But since I do now know some of this stuff (like the behavior problems can be due to the lack of intellectual peers), it sort of felt like we were speaking to people from a different planet (ok, maybe just a different country) when they were telling us things about the importance of socialization to fix those "behavior problems."
