Well I'm not sure this will be helpful to you, but we just removed our son from a private school for "gifted and academically advance" children. He was there for Pre-K and K. They assured us they fully understood the needs of gifted children but couldn't specifically articulate what those needs were. I heard several times "all children are gifted with the right attention and resources." That should have made my alarm bells go off.
Instead, we stuck it out two years and a LOT of cash. Meetings upon meetings yielded us the "you push him too hard" or "we go out not up" or "we've never had a Kindergartener who could actually read, usually they just memorize".
Val has a really good and funny post somewhere about what the fancy brochures really mean. I wish I would have known that in advance! We're moving our HG son to 1st grade at a charter school with the IB primary years curriculum instead.
