Our DD is HG according to some scales and higher according to others so please take this with a grain of salt...
She attends a rural public school with cornfields/cattle pastures abutting the school which ought to illustrate just how rural. We have been able to be moderately successful so far.
The advantage of a smaller school district is that there is more personal accountability and people cannot hide behind procedures because there are simply less layers. This has allowed us to leverage the IAS to get our DD whole grade accelerated. It has also allowed us to get our DD bused to the regional HS for an addition 2 year skip in Maths. The village school district has been amazingly accommodating
We also after school to a limited extent via AoPS and she has done a DYS LA class - we don't overdo this because we also recognize that we have to balance appropriate challenge with the need for downtime which is completely unstructured.
In short, in our experience, a regular classroom can work for an HG child depending on their individual needs and personality plus your ability to provide addition after school challenge. Provided that you are also blessed with a school district prepared to accommodate the needs of your child appropriately.
We recognize that our DD could more several years ahead if we home schooled but a) we do not want to send a juvenile to college b) this is not possible economically for us and c) we also recognize that life is a distance race not a sprint.
Education is a life long process from our perspective.
All the above is accurate for our DD11 - whether we can sustain after schooling (appropriate challenge) AND have our DD complete the busywork assigned in later middle school and high school remains to be seen...
Last edited by madeinuk; 09/27/16 05:42 AM.
