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Washington's Transition School and Early Entrance Program have provided a way for gifted children to accelerate, preventing them from abandoning their intellectual pursuits and failing because of individual at-risk difficulties. Today there are several ways for parents to provide for their for genius children, while providing them with above average intellectual developments two options: the High School Baccalaureate programs and specialized schools.

Difficulties of a Genius Child

When we think of a genius child, we think of someone who is beyond smart, someone who is extraordinarily intelligent.  What we do not give them credit for is being extremely creative, which is something which sets them apart from someone who is simply very smart.  If we see a child who is extremely creative, we do not label them as being a genius because they are not intellectually smart.

A dilemma for the average person, a true genius requires both transitions of extreme creativity and high intelligence —such as Albert Einstein, Mozart and Isaac Newton—individuals who have approached the world in such a unique and novel approach that they have changed the way that masses of people think.

Multiple Fields of Genius

Someone's IQ (intelligence Quotient) is not an accurate test, even though many people feel that a measure of a true genius is their intelligence level. Other people feel that the IQ is not accurate, only measuring a person's genius by what they produce throughout their life. Other people feel that a true genius cannot get along very well in the normal schools, even though a lot of this is based on the fact they think different which makes them difficult to follow. But one thing for sure, is they become extremely bored if not challenged as children, which is where Washington's Transition School comes in.

The Gifted Child in Everyday School

An average school for a gifted child is deadly, as discussed in an article by Nancy Robinson and Kathleen Noble, titled "Acceleration: Valuable high school to college options." A child may possibly turn off from desiring intellectual pursuits at 12 years of age when his intellectual level is of a junior/senior level. Signs may develop which demonstrates this is occurring—irritability, depression, discontent, substance abuse, suicide, and school delinquency.

Typically an average parent will assume their child has ADHD or ADD, feeling they should be "dummied down" to fit in with the class instead of choosing to stimulate them mentally. Most parents are more apt to think their child has the prior instead of being "too smart" for school at the initial onset.

Advantages of Genius Schools

The average secondary school systems allow the genius to become bored and extremely apathetic, as the general school system is tailored for average children and youth. Not all the teachers are of the highest caliber of intellectual capability, with the Transition School at the  University of Washington offering preservation, advancement and dissemination of knowledge. Continuously, it offers new advances in knowledge from various forms of research, discussion, and inquiry.

This is all developed through the many venues---the classroom,  laboratory, creative practice, public service, international education, scholarly exchanges—with a commitment to maintaining an environment for imaginative inquiry, objectivity, and the production of new knowledge in a free exchange of ideas, theories, and diverse facts.