At our school, there is a weird tension between parents who have their kids in traditional classrooms and those who have their kids in the gt center. I have friends in both camps. Over the years I have come to the conclusion that "GT parent" is a code for "pushy, overachievers who won't let their kids be kids." I even hear gt parents describe other gt parents this way, i.e "Sue has Jane in an 8 week Mandarin class this summer -- doesn't that seem a little much?" Funny though, no one ever seems to think of themselves as a "GT parent."
