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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I have a child very similar to yours but probably not quite as high IQ. But still very high.

Because of his social / emotional IQ challenges, and his tendencies toward anxiety, and -- very importantly -- because of our own pedagogical philosophy, we enrolled him in a progressive school here in the Washington area.   We have experienced the same discovery as you have as the kids have matured and aged.   There is a wiiiiide range of intellectual ability in his classrooms.

NOTE TO THE HATERS:  I am not saying that persons with less ability are bad, or less than, or do not have great and valuable abilities in other areas, or cannot contribute.

We work hard to make sure DS is enriched and supported outside of school (travel, theater, math extracurriculars, competitive-entry academic summer camps).  We hammer the 'work ethic is not the same as innate ability' concept.  We are looking forward to the day he enrolls in a high school with a broader academic peer group.

DS is extremely happy and confident and supported in his current school environment and has grown socially and emotionally far beyond what I imagined was possible.   That is invaluable to him and to us; it's much more important than being accelerated in algebra to the absolute limit of his IQ capacity as he might be in a Nysmith, BASIS or MoCo magnet.

Also, although the pace and content may be too simple for DS, I cannot deny that his current school is certainly teaching him to learn how to learn.  That's a central tenet of progressive ed and not necessarily available (to this great extent) in other more content-heavy independent schools in DC.  [/quote]

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