I am in the process of deciding whether our current school is going to work out well for our DD and in having a chat with a (recently departed interstate) parent of an older gifted child she commented that "The gifted co-ordinator was not very "gifted" herself and that was a problem". Which was kind of an "Ah-ha!" moment for me. I am guessing this may often be the case, my question is - does it matter? Is someone that has never not had to work to understand their age appropriate class word, never been isolated by their intellect going to actually understand our kids? And why are they so interested in the first place (our gifted ed teacher has masters or is doing a PhD in gifted ed, I can't remember which)?
