C1234 - You're such a tease. Seriously, sometimes these words fly out of my fingers and it's a bit scary!
Shari - Glad this cleared things up for you and you round it useful. That you had no trepidation makes sense to me, since this your baseline experience. In a way the question that really intreages me is that you haven't had to fight. Is that because you walked in with such a strong confidence? Is it because the 'kind' of giftedness that runs in your family is the sort that is easier for a school system to notice? Is it because of high EQ and lack of 2E issues? I seem to remember that you homeschooled for a while, is the fact that you had enough confidence in your perspective to 'put your money where your mouth is and homeschool' part of the reason you've never had to fight to advocate?
Anyway - your feedback gives me a lot of hope that when the kids who we talk about today are the parents of tomorrow that teaching kids at their readiness level will be 'no big deal.'
Love and More Love,
Grinity
