educational consultant for GT kids

[Anonymous]

MCPS change to Curriculum 2.0 is not working for child. Am looking to see what private alternatives would be a good fit. Two kids test in 99% in quantitative reasoning and are high-level readers. Grades 3 and 5. Does anyone know a good ed consultant who would be able to help guide us as to best options for them?

[Anonymous]

What is curriculum 2.0? What specifically isn't working?

[Anonymous]

If Georgia Irvin (correct name?) is still around, she was helpful when our kids were very young.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Georgia Irvin (correct name?) is still around, she was helpful when our kids were very young.

Georgia has retired, but she worked closely with Pam Tedeschi, who now has the business. They were helpful identifying options for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Ditto the recommendation for Pam Tedeschi. She helped find the right fit for my two DCs, each bright, but with different personalities.

[Anonymous]

If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

I agree. We have done private school (Big Three) and a MoCo MS magnet, and the magnet was a bigger challenge to a GT kid.

[Anonymous]

Your grade 5-er will never see 2.0... Though I think it will catch up to your Gr 3-er. Not sure if these are the grades they completed or will be in next year..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

I agree. We have done private school (Big Three) and a MoCo MS magnet, and the magnet was a bigger challenge to a GT kid.

That was my post. We also moved a kid from private school (top 5?) to a magnet, and he was much happier and more challenged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your grade 5-er will never see 2.0... Though I think it will catch up to your Gr 3-er. Not sure if these are the grades they completed or will be in next year..

That's what I was wondering. How is 2.0 "not working" if they haven't experienced it yet? Not to excuse anything MCPS does, but this seems like a problem with horse and cart order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

Should clarify. Your rising fifth grader would apply to the middle school magnets with an application this fall and a test in December. You won't know the results until about February. So you would need to apply to private schools at the same time, as a backup, or you might find a private school that suits your child's personality to a T and make that your first choice. But either way, you would have a number of options in case one choice doesn't pan out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

I agree. We have done private school (Big Three) and a MoCo MS magnet, and the magnet was a bigger challenge to a GT kid.

Depends on the kid, depends on the school, and depends on what you mean by challenge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

I agree. We have done private school (Big Three) and a MoCo MS magnet, and the magnet was a bigger challenge to a GT kid.

Depends on the kid, depends on the school, and depends on what you mean by challenge.

BTDT with both options. On the whole, the magnet curriculum is more rigorous and demands more of a GT student than the Big Three school curriculum did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kids are outliers, stick it out and send them to the HG centers and then the magnets. You can supplement until then. If your kids don't make it into the magnets (and lots of 99pctile kids don't), then do private school.

I agree. We have done private school (Big Three) and a MoCo MS magnet, and the magnet was a bigger challenge to a GT kid.

Depends on the kid, depends on the school, and depends on what you mean by challenge.

BTDT with both options. On the whole, the magnet curriculum is more rigorous and demands more of a GT student than the Big Three school curriculum did.

Likely true in ES, possibly true in MS, not true in HS.

[Anonymous]

That's what I was wondering. How is 2.0 "not working" if they haven't experienced it yet? Not to excuse anything MCPS does, but this seems like a problem with horse and cart order

Exactly.