f child A's specific ability is language arts and say that he's in the 98th percentile in the verbal realm, does he have similar enough needs to a child who is in the 98th percentile in general ability to say that we can educate them together for language arts?
My abilities are very uneven. I am extremely strong verbally, high average in math, and below average in some spatial and nonverbal skills. It would have been an enormous mistake to separate me out from the more globally gifted kids for language arts.
Now, would a gifted-only school have been a good idea for me? I don't think so. But I absolutely needed instruction at my level in language arts, and the other more globally gifted kids were certainly the right group to place me with.
