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It's a lot of "do you think my child is gifted" type questions. I like responding to those because it brings back memories of confusion, pride, and feeling timid about asking such a loaded question on a forum.

One person advised taking the question to a general forum, counting how many times people got snarky or outright accused you of lying, then you'll know your kid is gifted:) Funny.

Point is, it's small enough to have its character changed rather easily ;-) (I do sort of agree, but you also have to know that acceleration really doesn't exist in the UK in state schools in recent years, and neither do gifted programmes, so when parents ask about either, they will be told to let go of the idea. From a US perspective, this looks off-putting; from a UK one, it is realistic.)

I enjoy MDC for the AP angle that is prevalent - if there are people who have squared the circle how you can "let a child be a child" and "follow their lead" while still meeting their academic needs that is where they hang out.

Glad you enjoyed that - I couldn't resist! Though I wondered afterwards whether that first time poster on the gifted forum might have thought I was being snarky, but decided to leave it up, what's done was done...no one complained...