Too many California schools border on or are hostile to gifted students. This has been a huge frustration for us.
We live in the Bay area. There are elite universities here, plus a huge number of other colleges and other universities, plus loads of biotech and high tech companies. Given all this, we have to have a higher proportion of MG+ and HG+ kids than would be found in most other places. Yet the public schools barely have gifted programs. There are a few public schools that claim to be for gifted students, but when I investigated, I saw that they really aren't. We're fortunate to have a few private schools for gifted kids, but they're expensive and not everyone can afford them.
I don't get it (in so many ways).
Val
