Highly Gifted designation & living abroad in 3rd grade

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Anonymous wrote:If you are abroad in Europe, its likely your curriculum will be more advanced that that used by MCPS. Even in "American" schools overseas.

This. What country?

Germany. But I am not sure this is true. I think German curriculum starts pretty slowly and then picks up in middle/high school. If nothing else, I would have to work on English grammar and vocabulary. I cannot see it being a big deal one way or another. After all, it's 3rd grade!

It's not true, and there is no gifted track at all.

There are different skill tracks in ALL European schools in most subjects. They don't call it "gifted" because they have a different mentality and don't need to pander to American attitudes towards academic talent and how to define it.

Most high level students are doing algebra is 6tb grade in Europe. Honestly, living in Germany for a year and having your child have the experience of German school is much more valuable on the long run than the gifted test. I lived abroad as a kid and many of my friends never received the gifted designation because we were abroad 2nd and 3rd grade. However, every one still went to MIT and Vandy and have MD/PhDs and what not. The experience itself was transformational. But yes, call the district.

OP here. Thank you. That's been our thinking as well.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are abroad in Europe, its likely your curriculum will be more advanced that that used by MCPS. Even in "American" schools overseas.

This. What country?

Germany. But I am not sure this is true. I think German curriculum starts pretty slowly and then picks up in middle/high school. If nothing else, I would have to work on English grammar and vocabulary. I cannot see it being a big deal one way or another. After all, it's 3rd grade!

It's not true, and there is no gifted track at all.

There are different skill tracks in ALL European schools in most subjects. They don't call it "gifted" because they have a different mentality and don't need to pander to American attitudes towards academic talent and how to define it.

Well, it's easier to track kids by natural ability in a homogeneous society. Can you imagine the uproar if they tracked kids by aptitude in the US and 90% of the top kids were white and Asian? Lots of places can get away with common sense solutions that a diverse US can't (or won't) do.

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Pretty sure you're going to have to provide evidence of residency in MoCo at the time of test. Do you own a home that you'll hold on to while abroad?

A year in Germany sounds lovely!

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure you're going to have to provide evidence of residency in MoCo at the time of test. Do you own a home that you'll hold on to while abroad?

A year in Germany sounds lovely!

Yes, we will keep our home in MoCo.