She agreed that he will never find a friend at school who will be close to him intellectually, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. She asked if I ever saw Doogie Howser, the 80's sit-com about a 15 year old doctor. I said yes, I saw an episode or two. Then she asked if I remembered his best friend, who was obviously not his intellectual equal, but wasn't it great how much he got Doogie to just be a kid, and maybe that is what we should be looking for for our son.
So she is using a TV Show as the basis for rational decision making? This person has a PHD?
Did she cite school district policy, state law and policy, and any published research? What is her decision making framework and how did she apply it in your child's case?
For a PG kid, sports may be the best way to connect to age/ND peers, but older geeky kids or other PG kids will be the true peers. It was not until I transferred into a HS with children of parents who worked mostly at a local corporate lab and university that my age peers mostly
caught up with me - and almost all my classmates later got PHDs or became MDs.
