I think it can make it harder to serve a GT child--especially an HG+ child!--if the kid's memory and speed aren't GT, too, mainly because people *expect* more speed and memory from a GT child. But I think this is a flaw in the way we approach teaching GT kids. GTness and speed do NOT always go together! I think we need to accomodate GT-but-not-fast just as much as we accomodate GT-and-fast.
No, grade skips and curriculum compacting won't always work well for a child like mine. But SOMETHING must be done for him and others like him! He still needs to be challenged. He is still PG.
And there are quite a lot of kids like him! As rare as it is to find a kid with just one PG score, how much more unusual is it to find one who is PG across the board, including WMI and PSI?! There needs to be some solution available to those relatively more common "deep but slow" kids.
Reasons we're homeschooling...
