And, Dottie, clearly the teacher can make all the difference.
I don't for one second believe that there are no HG+ kids who thrive in ND classrooms. With the right teacher and good differentiation, an HG+ kid can be very well-placed in an ND classroom.
But it's so luck-of-the-draw. A bad teacher can just ruin a kid, at least for the time the kid is in that class. And I would argue--as I did in a previous post--that a great teacher and good differentiation *IS* a significant accommodation. It means somebody is teaching the GT kid, paying attention to his/her needs and development. That's what is needed.
It's just that in the vast majority of ND classrooms, it takes significant accommodation for the HG+ child to get that attention.
FWIW...
