Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Yup. Students with "exceptionalities." Covers everything outside of the mainstream needs, really, which is precisely why (IMO) gifted ed ought to = "special ed." It is "special" ed, and gifted students need those differentiations every bit as much as kids with other learning challenges do.

Maybe asynchronous would be a good word.

(1) It's true.

and

(2) Who wants their kids to be asynchronous? I mean, that word just *sounds* weird and totally uncool. Like it involves math or something icky like that.