OR, the school board members will all go to a conference that mentions gifted education or differentiation and that will meet the needs of these children.  I feel a scream coming on!  I am a gifted resource teacher, and twice this week I have heard from different teachers at different schools at different grade levels that ALL they are concerned about is how THEIR class does on the SOL testing - and that they NEED gifted kids scattered into every classroom to help their scores (so, that is number one, the teacher's scores).  Also, add to that three or four separate comments that gifted children are great to have in a room because they help the other students (thats number two).  Now - the third most important thing just might be, maybe be, the needs of that speciflc gifted child in the classroom.  Boy oh boy, are we holding back these children!  And how!  It is money, lack of regulation and lack of state mandated requirements that consistently puts the needs of these children last.  So . . .  you want to make it easier for these administrators and teachers to ignore this child and to continue to put the needs of the gifted children in their rooms in third place? Do we want our inventors, doctors, engineers, etc., to be help back?  Put down?  Be treated as third in the race to educate (and raise the scores of the lowest - forget about the top)?  One thing I know for sure - without regulation, children will SUFFER.  I think that gifted education should have MORE regulation and MORE money and resources initiated into every program in the state.  Don't be reckless!  We need to improve in order to compete on the global market.  These children are exceptions, and do not need to be thought of as last.  You MUST have as many regulations for the top as you do for the bottom.