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Yes, she'll take a test in kindergarten that will assess her for admittance to a separate all-day gifted school. There isn't any reason why we would need private testing separate from that.

I was in all-day separate-school GT from third through eighth grade, followed by four years at the most competitive high school in the US. (Seriously). Gifted education was beyond invaluable for me and if my parents had chosen to keep me from it, I would have resented them for my entire life. Having said that though; I do reflect on the sheer amount of work and stress we were all under, particularly at my high school, and wonder if there isn't a better way to structure gifted kids' schedules - there has been a lot written in recent years, for example, about the value of reducing kids' homework load, and I think there's an important lesson in that.