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[quote=Anonymous]My PG kid is quite happy at GDS.   Typically the public approach is to enable gifted kids to go fast and the private approach is to enable them to go broad and/or deep.  Whether a private school can pull that off depends on faculty, class sizes, and cohort.  (Inclination probably also matters).

Observe classes, look at what they read, pay attention to the projects on the walls/in the halls.  For me, the ideal is challenging and engaging assignments that are open-ended but have a clear focus/structure.  That approach works well with a wide range of abilities.  But you also need teachers that can engage at the level your kid is at (i.e. provide critical feedback, help him/her take the analysis to the next level vs. simply praise or evaluate).

The cohort of intellectual peers will be smaller at a private than in a public gifted program.  That said, for a PG kid, the peer group (if defined in terms of IQ) is always small.  But we all learn from people who think differently than we do, so really what you want is a place where the students are curious, intellectually playful, passionate about their interests, etc.  And you can probably sense that from classroom visits.  Although, alas, it does vary from year to year sometimes.  My kid got lucky.  A year younger or older and it would have been a different story.[/quote]

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