Gifted kids? (Was Re: Emailing the teacher)

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>Are you in Canada? Is this across the country or is it specific from town toTown? Have you talked to the school board about this issue?

I do live in Canada. Ontario, to be specific. I have no idea what union this is, so I don't know how far-reaching it is. There's no way on God's green earth I would bring this up with the school board, though. Our board has a long-standing feud with our town and our schools, teachers, and kids are suffering from it. Right now they are in the process of closing the elementary school and putting all grades, K-12, into a falling-apart high school with an inefficient renovation budget. It's a long, long story and I have no faith at all in them.

That leads me to my question: Does anyone have experience in having an Apsie who's also identified as "gifted?" We thought dd was done with her psych/Ed evaluation and that we'd get the feedback/diagnosis this week; however, we got a call from the psychologist on the weekend saying she wanted to run one more test because our daughter was scoring very high in the gifted range except in one small area and she wanted to double-check things.

Most people would be happy to have a gifted child, but as much I love our teachers, like I said, our board is another issue. The average number of gifted students is supposed to be 10%. Our board says there are only 10 students total in the entire county, and it's a big county (our school alone has 300 students). Therefore, they offer no programs for giftedness and rely on IEPs. My concern is that I fear there's going to be difficulty in making the Asperger's and the giftedness work together. They seem to be at two opposite ends and I don't know what I should push for when I go to her IPRC at the end of the month. My dd is not the self-motivated kind of kid like I was, rather, she's the "do as little as possible" type of kid like my brother was. I fear if they expect her to self-motivate to "enrich" her curriculum, we'll be set up for colossal failure and frustration.

Any suggestions or insights? I'm getting sick with worry over this and I'm usually not that kind of person.

Cheryl S.