well, the idea behind the site was to flatten the learning curve for parents.
My personal observation is that parents of HG/PG kids often know more about their kid's giftedness than about 'the system'. That's why the site deals alot with gifted ed process issues and not 'gifted ed theory' as much.
Pennsylvania has a unique set of rules that strongly favor the gifted child.
For groups like Davidson Institute and the Templeton Foundation, PA is the perfect state for conducting research - the state requires districts to identify all school age children at parent request - even for privately placed students, the state mandates individualized educational plans based on student need, and districts are specifically excluded from citing adminstrative difficulty or costs associated with implementing an appropriate plan for the kid in public school.
My local public school has more resources than the private schools in the area. The problem was figuring out how to get them made available. That's where knowing 'the system' comes into play.
