My take on this is a bit different:
As a gifted child myself, I found that I was less prepared for University than most children around me. Why? Because I didn't have to work at anything, never learned study skills, and still succeeded. Most other children my age knew how to do the vital self-learning things that help you succeed in hard environments.
In this manner, I did not learn some of the most fundamental skills that the schools are supposed to teach.
I see my gifted child and I want him to learn the important fundamentals that school teaches other children. In order for him to learn that, he has to be in a place where he struggles just enough that he can make it if he works at it. In doing so, he gets an equal opportunity to learn some important life skills that many kids in his grade have already begun to learn.
I've also put him into an environmental charter school to ensure he learns about the planet around him and how to help save it.:) I guess that allays my guilt at pushing for his education.
Lya
