Originally Posted by Cricket2
I know that I disagree with him, but beyond saying that research shows that gifted children can't make it with no support, I apparently don't have convincing arguments.
This might be just a weird coinsidence, but Renzulli, perhaps of a similar age to your FIL uses that saying all the time to support gifted education - see

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/semart03.html

What do you think?
Grinity

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