KingdomMom, you said it's like they can't understand her -- they can't. My dd was in public school, which fortunately had a program where all the grades at that school did reading at the same time. She got moved up and moved up until she was a fifth grader doing the "post-eighth grade" literature class, which was really good for her except socially because most of the class was "smart eighth graders" who resented her presence. The best part, however, was that she got to have this really wonderful teacher until she was actually done with eighth grade. She had been tested for the gifties program twice, but the first time was right after her father died, and the next was two years later just after her grandmother (with whom we lived) died. One thing about the public school system is its impeccable timing! Anyway, in tenth grade she got tested and accepted to the gifties' residential high school for math, science and the arts, and FINALLY she was among people who "got" her (besides her mother, but that doesn't count to a teenager, you know). She finally could stop trying NOT to be "just like your mother" (which she got all the time because she had a lot of the same teachers who knew me all through school - small rural area, what can I say?), and could become "herself" which turned out to be much more like me than she ever thought. IF ONLY homeschooling had been an option when she was a young child!!!
She has tried out before for one of the kid ones.. not sure why she was not there. Nwo she is strying out for a teen one too! I wanted to go back to the fact that she will need the challenge, my dd said get her tons of books so she can read when she gets bored. Tons of books... I know my dd reads either computer, Bible, or other books from library or re reads things she is never really just sitting doing 'nothing" when I look back I really don't think she enjoys some of the things like Baseball becuase she does not get to keep doing things, does not have tothink the wholegame,just the part you are out in feild or up. She liked soccer, so you may see if your dd wants to join soccer, it uses brain power constantly cause you have to figure angels and such, just a thought there,
Thank you everyone for your encouraging words and advice!! I am now even more sure that homeschooling is definitely the right option for us!
