[sighs] I really wish my middle school had had a decent gifted program - they had something (I don't remember what it was called) that was for an hour once a week, making clay maps and drawing pictures, not particularly helpful. At least the librarians liked me (and remembered me years later, when my younger sister was attending) - they'd let me at the big kid books and bring stuff over from the high school.

The biggest problem, I think, was that the school was an old one in an area experiencing rapid growth - there were 30+ kids in all of my classes from Kindergarten though 9th grade, hundred of kids in the school, and they weren't able to adapt :( The private school my parents eventually sent me to (9th-11th) was better but... quirky.