ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the parental role as an advocate for talented students. It deals with discussions on a variety of topics related to advocacy, including the relationship between gifted education and educating mathematically talented students, advocacy and legal issues, and parent-teacher conferences. Several lists and examples provide the reader with easy access to the information. The individuals involved in making decisions about changing a student's educational program may have very different ideas about what the student needs and what resources should be made available to him or her. Programming for mathematically talented students is strongly connected to gifted education. “The case provides a judicial precedent that gifted education proponents can use to support the demand for individualized, appropriate education for gifted students, particularly in states statutorily mandating that districts provide gifted education”. Parents have the right and the obligation to pursue those educational avenues that will result in a differentiated curriculum for their mathematically talented child.
