Yes. We call it first born here :-) And when I coached debate we knew there were the kids with talent, the kids who worked hard, and the talented who worked hard. Talent and hard work went head to head. Talent with hard work - untouchable. Frustrating advice we got at that point was to find activities to distract her from learning anything more. Like what? blackbox theater with no scripts?
What is seriously frustrating to me about your post is this constant looking for the weak spot, the problem, the loop hole to services. Some days I think an army of crazy and overly proud parents tried to convience schools their traditional students needed x, y, and z, and the schools all got burned. As it still seems exciting to me to be a school with that kind of opportunity. Yikes, my soapbox just split a little - time for a choir singing diet of 20 characters or less per post :-)
Sorry, I swallowed extra sassy syrup with breakfast today.
