I think both StG and Knute are right in terms of asking questions, and in some sense pressing to have some explanations. When I was "shopping" for gifted schools, I could not get anyone to answer me as to what they do with the really advanced kids - they were much more focused on the kindy kids who met the testing criteria but could not read or read well. Then it was all about the methods and approach to get them reading by (insert level here) level, which is so advanced, blah, blah, blah. There was no willingness to believe in the outlier without seeing it. This was my experience with public - the privates - we did talk to some who tossed around terms like asynchronous development and seemed really interested in designing individual programs for the kids but I haven't seen that in public
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