If your DC was accepted to a GT Center, did u get a wink and nudge from principal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The decision isn't solely up to the principal.

Some kids who are accepted into GT are already 10 years old! In third grade at age 10! Does that qualify as gifted or just older than your classmates?

Yes, 10yo. My child is in the Center and she turned 10 two weeks after starting. She met the cutoff by two weeks so we delayed enrolling her in K for a year. Two weeks. Hardly so much "older" that it confers some crazy advantage.

She is not the oldest in her class. There is a boy in her class who turned 10 the summer before third grade.

To answer the OP's question, no, no wink or nudge. Nothing at all.

Sorry, but I am having trouble following this. Our DD has a summer birthday, and will turn 8 just before third grade. she will be 8 for all of third grade, and if she is accepted, she would enter a MCPS HGC at age 9 and be 9 for all of 4th grade. I would expect that at most, there would be kids turning 9 early in the third grade year or turning 9 the summer before third grade because they were redshirted. How does a typically developing child turn 10 before third grade?! Wouldn't that child be held back two years? And if so, how would that child then suddenly be considered gifted?
And are you talking about MCPS or a county where HGC start in a different grade?

12:17 here - sorry, I meant to say that she turned 10 two weeks after *fourth* grade started. Not third.

The HGC starts in fourth grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But 12:17 mentioned a child turning 10 BEFORE third grade starts. That is not a redshirted spring birhtday kid turning 10 in april of third grade vs. October of 4th grade. If my kid turns 8 the August beofre third grade, and another kid turns 10, that is a two year spread per grade, not a one year spread. I can't beleive that happens all that much, and I do think it would be unfair to judge giftedness when comparing kids two years apart in age. My kids aren't old enough yet for us to worry about it. It just seemd strange to me.

I think the poster meant "a boy ... turned 10 the summer before FORTH grade". It is pretty obvious from the context.

Yes, that's what I meant - and my DD turned 10 two weeks after fourth grade started. The point being, she (and that boy) are not vastly older than their classmates. They are older by a matter of a couple of weeks.

[Anonymous]

Turning 10 in august. Hope to go to hgc

[Anonymous]

Turning 9 in August also going..obviously can complete with peers even though young for the year

[Anonymous]

To clarify, there are children currently in 3rd grade who are now 10 years old, who will attend 4th grade HGC for the new school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To clarify, there are children currently in 3rd grade who are now 10 years old, who will attend 4th grade HGC for the new school year.

Can you tell me how many children are currently 10 years old in 3rd grade who will attend HGC, when they turned 10, and which elementary school they are in now? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To clarify, there are children currently in 3rd grade who are now 10 years old, who will attend 4th grade HGC for the new school year.

So these are kids with winter birthdays who were redshirted?

Very odd.

[Anonymous]

Any child with a September 2001 birthday or later is a legitimate member of the current third grade class and should be allowed to apply to the centers along with their peers if they are working at an advanced level. If their needs are not being met they should be at a center regardless of birthday. As a PP said..her child was attending with an August 2002 birthday. It is not like younger children are excluded.

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't a child born in Sept 2001 be nine now and then turning 10 after starting in 4th grade?

Children who are currently 10 in the 3rd grade would have to be born before April 2001?

That kind of extreme red shirting is common in the W school cluster.