Well we made the right decision

I have been reading about the social and emotional health of "gifted" kids and one of the things that I took note of was that elementary school kids were bothered by the fact that no one ever explained the term to them. They knew they were different and were in different classes, but never really understood why.

One day I asked Wolf if he knew why he was in Independent Study in first grade and not in a regular Kindergarten classroom. He replied that he did not. I asked him if he wanted to know and he said yes.

I explained that if he was in a classroom with children his age he would be learning the alphabet, how to count to twenty, how to sound out and read basic words like cat, and that he wouldn't be learning Spanish or Logic or root words. I told he we had put a lot of thought into which option to choose and had decided that putting him in an environment where he could work at his level and be challenged would be the best idea. I asked him if he would rather be in a regular classroom and his response was, "NO! It would be way too boring."

I take that as proof we made the right choice...