If your child is gifted and an outlier, did you homeschool?

[Anonymous]

If your child was a few grade levels ahead in reading and math, did you still send the child to school or did you homeschool?

[Anonymous]

School. A child like that needs to be taught by an expert, not someone who Googled curricula for ten minutes like me.

[Anonymous]

Magnet programs in public school.

[Anonymous]

That's not really an outlier around here. No, we supplemented at a home with workbooks.

[Anonymous]

I had a kid who really was an outlier. Calculus at 10 kinda kid. We homeschooled for medical reasons (he was also an outlier there) and it was the right choice.

I also have a kid who is more run of the mill gifted, ready for Algebra at 11 kinda kid. He has been well served by schools.

[Anonymous]

No don't homeschool a gifted kid unless something elese is going on.

OP you will fail your kid if you homeschool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a kid who really was an outlier. Calculus at 10 kinda kid. We homeschooled for medical reasons (he was also an outlier there) and it was the right choice.

I also have a kid who is more run of the mill gifted, ready for Algebra at 11 kinda kid. He has been well served by schools.

That's not an outlier around here. Some schools/public allow kids to do Algebra starting in 6th. Mine did.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you for your responses. I was thinking about a possibility of asking several teachers who have an advanced degree and experience in gifted education to teach my child. She takes classes from them already, usually one session a day and maybe that is enough for now. But I wondered what other children do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a kid who really was an outlier. Calculus at 10 kinda kid. We homeschooled for medical reasons (he was also an outlier there) and it was the right choice.

I also have a kid who is more run of the mill gifted, ready for Algebra at 11 kinda kid. He has been well served by schools.

That's not an outlier around here. Some schools/public allow kids to do Algebra starting in 6th. Mine did.

Right that is why I called him “run of the mill gifted”. I do think his brother who was doing calculus at 5th grade age was an outlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a kid who really was an outlier. Calculus at 10 kinda kid. We homeschooled for medical reasons (he was also an outlier there) and it was the right choice.

I also have a kid who is more run of the mill gifted, ready for Algebra at 11 kinda kid. He has been well served by schools.

OP here. May I ask what happened to your Calculus at 10 kid? Mine is six and she is finishing up Fraction and started Algebra.

[Anonymous]

Holy crap! Algebra at age 6? That IS an outlier!

[Anonymous]

Your child needs socialization, not one on one schooling or homeschooling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you for your responses. I was thinking about a possibility of asking several teachers who have an advanced degree and experience in gifted education to teach my child. She takes classes from them already, usually one session a day and maybe that is enough for now. But I wondered what other children do.

Get some workbooks and relax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy crap! Algebra at age 6? That IS an outlier!

It would be really rare a child at age 6/7 would be ready for Algebra except if they skipped over many things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a kid who really was an outlier. Calculus at 10 kinda kid. We homeschooled for medical reasons (he was also an outlier there) and it was the right choice.

I also have a kid who is more run of the mill gifted, ready for Algebra at 11 kinda kid. He has been well served by schools.

OP here. May I ask what happened to your Calculus at 10 kid? Mine is six and she is finishing up Fraction and started Algebra.

NP here, and I'd also be interested in suggestions.

We haven't done a lot of formal written math yet outside of Montessori, but my 5 y.o. is basically already working out symbolic equations with variables on his own. I'm not trying to brag. I was considered a math whiz as a kid, and I'm certain I couldn't do what he can do at his age. His pre-school Montessori teacher said she has never had a math student like him in 20+ years of managing her center. Right now we're supplementing math at his Montessori in the afternoon after Mandarin-immersion Kindergarten at our public in the morning. Aside from also being an early reader, though, he's quite young in other ways...so I wouldn't consider accelerating him grade-wise. But I can't keep up with his demand for more complex math...and I have a math-heavy PhD!