Genius child

[snowolf64]

I have been possibly lucky to have born as my son a HPL child (high potential learning ) at not even 2 and a half he can read and spell many 9 letter words name all the planets in order and just so much more, when you got a child and sits there and spells rectangle and hexagon and stuff like that it;s just weird. so how do i get him a sponsor to get him to private school because sending him anywhere else feels a bit like getting your hands on Einstein and sending him to work in Mc Donalds... help rich people

OP - if your child develops as you hope I'd be careful to sound out the attitude of both state and private schools you might be thinking about to managing G&T kids. I think a lot depends on the attitude of the Head to resource allocation, rather than whether you go state or private. Private might get you smaller classes and more individual attention, but a good G&T programme in a state school could do very well. OTOH you might get a state head who cares only about the headline level 4 achievement % and could not give a damn about allocating resources to about bright kids. Or a private head who worries more about the performance of the sports teams. It is more important to sound out the attitude and resource allocation than to presume that private is better.

Naive idealist?
Oh bite me. You asked rich folk for a handout, and bitched via pm.

My petty materialistic parenting comes with three gifted kids, and no cash, lol.

Grow up, do some reading about giftedness, and learn how to engage in conversation. If you had actually answered any questions that were asked of you, instead of blathering wah wah poor me I'm so hard done by with a genius and no money, you might actually have found out some useful information. You appear to have been suckered into believing private school marketing, which is a shame, but perhaps a product of your own limited experience?

I wish you and your child well. Do a bit of reading around raising gifted kids and stop looking for handouts.

I can see the op has worded this badly and ruffled feathers.

BUT, OP, IME MN gets very agitated when the word gifted is used with choldren, especially very young ones. There will always be a hardcore group that will take delight in bringing you down a peg and saying either that it will all even itself out by Y3 or whatever, or that of course they aren't gifted, they are just bright. I mean, let's face it, they aren't on Grade 8 violin yet? There's also the very thorny debate of those with funds able to access a "better" education for their childten, be it private or tutors for grammars. All these flash points are touched on in your thread and have wound people up.

I'd do as Bertrand suggested and get yourself a new name and repost asking about scholarships and bursaries to academic private primary schools in your area, as well as the best state provisions for potentially gifted primary age children in your area.

WiryElevator , did you read all the thread?
I don't think anybody got agitated by use of the word "gifted", but shocked because he sent a horrible PM to Bertland.

I mean all the post!

Irvine - yeah I did read the whole thread. Maybe very agitated is overstating it - certainly there are a good few posts on this thread, as there are on all MN threads re gifted children, that intimate that the ops child is nothing special and to pipe down. Or just post shoehorning in how gifted and bright their child is.

Not saying there isn't some good advice on the thread too.

Gifted is one of those meaningless labels because everyone has their own view what it means resulting in it being misused and over used but the OP said "Genius" not gifted and there's nothing in their posts to support this view.

Snowolf64, since you're in East London, have a look at Bancroft's school. They offer up to 100% scholarships for prep school, from the age of 7. I have no idea if this school would in any way suit your son, but they are known to be very academic and who knows, maybe they'd accept your son at a younger age, if they think he's really exceptional.

Well quite. I have given up asking what the basis of the genius dx was as it is being roundly ignored in favour of asking for money.

If we had some idea of the diagnostic circumstances and where the op is exactly in the 'fuck what do I do with this child?' conundrum, it may have been possible to offer something more concrete. It is bloody scary to receive an official report that suggests your kid is really very different. And raises all sorts of panic stricken thoughts about your role as a parent in ensuring the child meets their apparent potential. It's entirely normal to fret in case you get it wrong and 'waste' what is apparently unusual enough to merit pages and pages of psych ramblings and statistics and figures.

But generally speaking, you get over it and relax a bit, and realise the child is no ticking time bomb and is doing fine.

But goodness only knows where the op is in the thought process other than 'I need cash!' That's nothing to do with bringing down a peg, and all to do with the limited engagement offered by the op.

OP
Personally I would suggest that you concentrate you efforts on teaching your son manners, politeness, respect for others
and then

introduce him to music
to nature
to art
to science
to history
to sport

go to museums
go to galleries
go to parks
go to the shops
go watch a match

try to create a polite rounded individual and the opportunities will arrive