What are everyone's thoughts on gifted schools? Is it better to be surrounded by peers who are also intelligent or does that maybe foster competiveness among students...
It is better for children to be in a school that "gets" them, adjusts curriculum as necessary and understands asynchronous behavior. Whether that is in a private school of some type or in a public one I don't think matters. Finding the fit is the hard part. You can work around attitude problems for the most part as long as the attitude problems aren't coming from the adults involved. Wolf is in the public school system (in an Independent Study program) after we interviewed the local gifted private school and realized that they didn't "get" him at all. Mind you I also interviewed three other charter programs as well and none of them were a good fit either.
