Probably true and also why I bring this up. Dd has always been pretty centered and never been one to go around judging others as stupid. I think that the lack of peers this year coupled with entry into official teen-hood has been leading her more toward having a distainful attitude that would be nice to see nipped in the bud.
My interest in her finding other HG kids is due to the fact that, when she had some friends like that in middle school I didn't see this side of her. I have encouraged her to join clubs, start clubs... Her homework load this year has been crazy but we are hoping that she'll have more time to fit in extracurriculars next year.
I think that your dc are in a gifted only school gives them the opportunity to have potential intellectual peers which may make the focus on who is smart or not less of an issue. I certainly don't want dd to go around judging people's intellect. I do think that being in an environment where you feel like few, if any, of your peers are people with whom you can have a conversation that doesn't include trying to convince them that the U.S. isn't literally selling states to China lends itself toward having a child/teen develop distain for others. That isn't positive. I do think that having some intellectual peers would help her attitude and, thus, want to support her finding other gifted kids.
