So, it's the end of the school year and it has not been great at all. Prepping for next year and all of the usual red flags are up.
1.How did you find the right school for your child?
2.Can you state specific helpful steps?
I feel like a parent who knows we are wasting our time but I cannot find the solution right away. Part of my specific problem is that both of my parents (very smart, strong-minded, critical and verbal) want to comment on all choices and, quite-frankly, is there ever consensus?
The usual dilemma -- there is no perfect, just choosing among what's available or doing it somehow as a family.
Maybe I just need some encouragement to hang in there for the gifted parent of gifted child cycle: the hope and excitement, the close-up truthful look and dose of reality and then bridging the gap to make the best of it until the student is in a good college setting.
Any new ideas or thoughts or words of insight / humor / anything at all.
Lastly, just the awful feeling that what I am perceiving is some quantity or combination of ignorance / chaos and I just had gotten used to being in a wonderful setting as an adult that going through this process again with a child seems so avoidable, I think I may just have to take a leap into a different direction. Not picking up a gifted vibe at all from the people who are supposed to be in the loop about gifted.
