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Membership Request

We welcome requests for membership from San Francisco Bay Area families who are homeschooling intellectually gifted children, or who are seriously considering doing so.

We have outlined the following criteria in order to clarify and protect the vision that we believe makes our group unique. Before making a request to join our group, please read the following information carefully.

Potential members should be

• residents of the San Francisco Bay area living within one hour of the central Peninsula (e.g., Redwood City).
• explicit in their introductory emails about their children's intellectual giftedness. We want to see a clear indication that you have researched giftedness and as a result, have identified your children as such. We only want as members those who have already identified their children as intellectually gifted and who have come to understand that giftedness affects every aspect of how their children learn and experience the world.
• willing to contribute to the group; participation is required.  Meeting and getting to know other members, arranging and/or participating in field trips, classes, or other get-togethers, attending our gatherings and making regular, substantive contributions to our email list are some of the ways our members help to create a vibrant community of gifted home learners.
• prepared to share basic personal information with other members of the group (names and ages of children, etc).  We are not, nor do we wish to be, an anonymous group.

There are many other groups offering online support and broader membership criteria.  We hope that potential members of our group will consider the vision we have for the group and decide whether or not they will meet our criteria before submitting an application to join us.

If you are ready to make a commitment to help us grow and develop our community, please see our membership request form. We ask for some basic information that we share privately among our members in a member database; and we ask you to introduce yourself through an email to our list (via a field on the membership request form). Once we have received your completed request, we will respond with information about accessing the group's online services.

Our Google group is our main online space, incorporating not only our mailing list and online discussion archive, but also our collection of private Web pages, which all our members can edit. To access the Web-based content of our Google group, you must use an email address for membership that is associated with your (free) Google account. Please see our page about Google accounts if you aren't sure what this means.

If you follow these instructions and make your request this way, you should be all set, but if you still have a question that isn't answered here, please contact membership@sfbaghs.org.