Are Schools Set Up for Gifted Children? (Moderately Gifted, Level One)

No. Very little happens before High School.

Surely the school will recognize your child’s advanced speaking and counting and reading abilities, right? A frequent comeback from teachers and principals has been, “We find they all level out by about 4th grade.”

“What do you recommend we do for our children?” asked a father who’d just heard me speak at the local gifted conference. I told him that I would need to know more about his family, the school, and any other options they have before I could recommend what would be best for them. He accused me of trying to make money off him rather than give him an answer.

What Should People Do to Support Gifted School Children?

Find the expert and your problems will be solved. Human beings are very complex, though, so recommendations and explanations are rarely simple or easy. Yes, an expert helps, but ultimately, you are the one who has to learn about what will fit your family, your child, and yourself best.

If you choose to take that journey of what works best for you or your child, you’ll find others traveling the same road, which is nice.

The gifted journey is a little bit like what parents of athletes experience as they…