There are many ways to meet the needs of a PG child; college is just one of them, and not choosing that particular option doesn't necessarily mean the child is any less GT.
And this brings us back to the article, which boils all giftedness down to whether a child is the next Einstein or not. My child is IDd HG+. Do I think he's the next Einstein? No. He's certainly not the next Mozart, either.
But he *does* have needs that are different than the average child, and the author seems to have decided that this is not valid with her statement "Forget about the g-word." We can't forget about it -- that's the term that's in use! Change it, if you will, to asynchonously developing, or intellectually advanced, or whatever ... but let's not brush it under the rug to make parents of ND children feel better about not having a "gifted" child.
