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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting kids in AAP or home schooling etc for social reasons does not teach them how to interact with the majority of the people - this is an important life lesson.[/quote]

An important life lesson that can be learned when children are older than 8, 9, and 10 years of age.

Someone on another board posted far more eloquently than me about the social issue -- saying, in part:

"There are many strong opinions expressed [ ] regarding the advantages
and disadvantages of gifted students being with intellectual peers during their
entire school day. Our personal experience as GT adults with 3 GT kids is that
true GT individuals will spend their entire lives "fittting in" socially, and
that having a safe place when one is developing and growing that validates one's
innate curiosity about the world (rather than ignoring and suppressing it) is
critical to the GT child's social and emotional growth and health, as well as
their intellectual growth."

Again -- a moderately gifted child will likely find it far easier to fit in socially with not-Center-eligible children. That is less the case for highly and exceptionally gifted children.
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