From your initial post, I would recommend reading up on perfectionism as well--on this board and in other places, like Hoagies. You want to nip that in the bud before it becomes crippling (speaking from experience here). Sometimes, when really bright kids haven't been challenged in school, they get so used to easy success that when they are eventually confronted with a real challenge, they shy away from it for fear of damaging their image as the smartest person in the room. Your goal should be to find an educational environment for your daughter where she has to work just as hard for her good grades as the other kids do--where she has the opportunity to occasionally fail, recover and learn that it's not the end of the world. As Carol Dweck put it, you want your daughter in an education placement where she's developing her intellect, not merely documenting it. Just my two cents.
