Often schools that do not (for whatever reason) think of themselves as exceptionally "good" schools seem to do a better job with PG kids. Our particular school system pats itself on the back quite hard about how "good" it is, and it does a miserable job for HG+ kids. Even MG kids aren't served by anything except the occasional in-class differentiation until 4th grade--that's 5 years of school, literally half the life of these kids! Then they wonder why there are behavior problems...*sigh* And thus we homeschool. But not all schools are like ours.
We live in a county that is divided - east & west. It is known by the entire state that the east side has the BEST schools. We couldn't (can't) afford to live in the east side. So we opted to find a school on the West side that was not the best, but not the worst. It was the PERFECT environment for DS. I really feel had we been in the BEST school zone, he'd be going into 1st instead of 2nd this year. I am really saddened that he will not be going back to that school, but with the grade skip of one year (and he scored well enough in most areas to skip 2 grades), that there won't be any "turning back" at this point, whatever school he's in.
So I totally think it's possible to find the perfect fit, even in *gasp* public schools! Obviously it's not always the right answer or best for every child or every location, but sometimes they get it right!!!
