NotSoGifted, it's not that I was trying to hide that my kid is bright. That's pretty much been impossible since he turned 2. I'm used to fielding observational comments about him from other parents.
For me, what took me by surprise was the implied assumptions about my motivation for sending him to this school...almost as if I'd been planning this for him since birth or something. I guess I would have preferred to hear, "I've heard that's a great place for kids of high ability to go because the teachers really understand giftedness; I hope it works out for him." Because that is pretty much how I actually feel.
