ha - that would certainly be a wrench coming from one's own mother!
for me the hardest (so far?) was hearing it from my best friend's mother - she's an M.Ed prof at a very well-respected university - several of her students teach at my kid's school, one of them in her actual class. although... now i actually wish i'd had that conversation with her about 18 months sooner - might have saved us 30K.
Sadly, this is probably a pretty common attitude among the M.Ed. crowd. Education schools do NOT focus on (or often, even address at all) giftedness. This high level of cluelessness and denial about basic facts in educators' own field is rather Orwellian.
