IMO all children are gifted.
reference bump
“A nine year old girl who reads at a high school level may continue to be challenged appropriately in literature, while working her way through fifth grade math.
I, although male, was such a gifted reader myself. In the third or fourth grade, I could plow though adult non-fiction at a terrific rate, and was quite a wiz at heraldry, paleontology, and other obscure topics.
But the one thing a child cannot do is understand adult fiction. I could have read the words of Jane Austen or Hardy quite easily, but the understanding the adult emotional and psychological worlds that the characters in these books live in is not possible for someone who has not reached puberty.
I have living proof that it can happen. There should be no doubt that children today only achieve 25% of their potential because of the school mills.
If you can't home school, you need to get into your child's education on a daily intimate bull-dog on the phone with the teacher go to meetings ask why give me proof attitude.