I don't think Grinity's way works either (sorry, Grin!
) because at any level you choose, a child might require much more or much less.
See, I guess that I am seeing it work if you look at her deliniations as something separate from a number, which was what I was reading into her post. Yes, there are kids with similar IQ scores who have totally different needs based on personality and a whole host of other things. If one is saying that all kids with IQs from ___ to ___ are HG and therefore need the things Grinity listed for a HG kid, then, yes, you're going to run into a lot of kids for whom that doesn't work.
However, if you say HG is as HG looks in action rather than how it looks on a test score, her definitions work -- at least for me
. Granted, that does become a slippery slope where you get what our local schools do which is have parents fill out "behavioral characteristics" scales which are then used to call a kid gifted even if ability and achievement scores don't support that.
