Originally Posted by Cricket2
...the district website now specially states that high IQ alone doesn't mean that the child is gifted and is not necessary to be gifted.

I find it fascinating that not only can people accept extremes of giftedness in athletes, they even adulate said athletes. Send the 9-year-old gymnast to the eastern US competition! Move the 12-year-old basketball player to the varsity squad at the high school! Write up stories in the paper and post them on the walls at school!

Yet suggest that a kid is even a little bit cognitively gifted and may require a tiny bit of acceleration and the shutters slam shut.