oh, yes! another vote for describing your son explicitly when visiting schools.
i was still in the denial phase when we chose DD's old school and i kind of glossed over her intelligence, simply characterizing her as "fun and interesting." i was so naive that i honestly thought a school that trumpeted its ability to differentiate for every kid would be prepared for mine.
ha! how wrong i was...
We were burned so badly on this last year, it still amazes me. Expensive private school, they knew he was way ahead from their own testing and could be a handful and yet... they accepted him and stuck him in the regular class with no accommodations, then played dumb and mean when we protested. The dumb one was the principal, who claimed our son wasn't gifted.
