Ok it is official Shannen is  a genius. I have written it down so now I have to deal with it. The psychologist giving her the testing has told me that a grade skip will do nothing for her (because she is so far ahead) so she will not recommend it. She has said that “no school will effectively educate her”… and “many of these kids end up quiting school”…NICE just what I wanted to hear. So it looks like we will be forking over an obscene amount of money to pay for her school, a tutor to come to said school, and the John Hopkins program…BLAH. Happy she is smart…but this is just not going to be easy. Oh and the best part is that she informed me that she also most likely has a learning disorder (I will post more on that as it comes) and she is most likely bi-polar. What are we going to do with this kid? She looks so small and helpless when she is sleeping….I just want to protect her from everything. I know there are many other (more sever) things that could be happening to my child but I am just feeling very tired at the thought of managing this for the rest of her childhood. I am trying to just think of her as Shannen and not as this label but it can be hard.