advice for family with profoundly gifted kid maybe moving to area?

[Anonymous]

Wasn't the TPES program set up to provide a good peer group for those very bright kids in the lower SES areas? If you're in Chevy Chase, Potomac, Bethesda you will have this at your neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

The Feynman School is a great school in Montgomery County it is located in the N Bethesda/Rockville area and caters specifically to kids just like your daughter.

I highly suggest you look into it. It may be what you are looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't the TPES program set up to provide a good peer group for those very bright kids in the lower SES areas? If you're in Chevy Chase, Potomac, Bethesda you will have this at your neighborhood school.

I don't know the origin, but there are good peer groups even at low SES schools. Pulling 1 or 2 kids (usually high income white kids) out of those schools doesn't change the social dynamic at the home schools, where, again, there are still cadres of bright, high achieving, motivated, kids with supportive parents.

I think the TPES magnet has become something different from what it was originally intended to be. I mean, it's great for the kids zoned for TPES, but I don't see it offering much to the broader MCPS community and I'm not sure it should be counted as one of the real magnet programs for the district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm in MoCo. Everyone here is gifted. Everyone. I'm not dissing your kid; my kids are not gifted. But apparently literally every single other kid they go to school with is. They don't even offer anything below advanced English at my older child's middle school.

So you'll fit right in here, and from what little I know of the AAP drama in Fairfax, you'll do just fine there as well.

are they gifted, or are they profiundly gifted? OP's daughter is in the top...what? something like 3/100K people have an IQ of 160 and OP's daughter is above that.

according to which testing expert and which test?

You can find the right person to give you the "right" answer if you look hard enough.

[Anonymous]

Tons of gifted kids in MCPS "W" feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Also, if you don't live in a "w" district, the backdoor in is thru an immersion program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, if you don't live in a "w" district, the backdoor in is thru an immersion program.

Do you mean the automatic feeder rights of RCF Spanish kids to BCC? I think that may be going away with the choice survey results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm in MoCo. Everyone here is gifted. Everyone. I'm not dissing your kid; my kids are not gifted. But apparently literally every single other kid they go to school with is. They don't even offer anything below advanced English at my older child's middle school.

So you'll fit right in here, and from what little I know of the AAP drama in Fairfax, you'll do just fine there as well.

are they gifted, or are they profiundly gifted? OP's daughter is in the top...what? something like 3/100K people have an IQ of 160 and OP's daughter is above that.

according to which testing expert and which test?

You can find the right person to give you the "right" answer if you look hard enough.

I don't know of any parent that would want s tester that wouldn't be their kid an artificially inflated IQ of 160.

[Anonymous]

Give, no be.

Sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tons of gifted kids in MCPS "W" feeder schools.

Also tons of gifted kids in schools that aren't in Bethesda, Potomac, or the parts of Rockville and Gaithersburg next to Potomac.

[Anonymous]

OP I also have a gifted child. He graduated from TJ (Thomas Jefferson School for science & tech) two years ago, so that was public all the way for him. His IQ is 145. ES and MS were a bit of a struggle, as he was not very challenged, even in the gifted program (AAP) Fairfax county, VA has a better system for gifted than MoCo, although there are many VERY bright children in MoCo also. Many of his colleagues at TJ went to private schools for K-8th then went to TJ. His cousin and aunt, who are also very high IQ, did private school all the way. I think private is more flexible and has more to offer, but that can be a financial burden. Gifted that far above the average is a kind of SN, in that you have to provide for it and it can get expensive. There are many programs for gifted children in the DC area, so you have come to the right place. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

PP above: Quite a few kids at TJ also went to Nysmith in NOVA.

[Anonymous]

Op I would advise you to ignore poster who say "just a normal kid" An IQ of 180 is not just a normal kid, and their brains need some nourishing. They will be beyond bored by 3rd grade. The teachers for my son were teaching him at a 4-5th grade level in 1st grade. That was nice of them, but it worked out better to go to a school that emphasized being MUCH more academic than usual. BTW, our relatives are also high IQ -- NOT the usual person -- whizzed through the Ivies, do original research, start up companies, famous author and so on. Give your child what she needs.

[Anonymous]

I'd also recommend Feynman. You can always apply to the HGC for 4th, & there are magnet middle/high school options later on as well if returning to public is your goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, profoundly gifted is 180+.

I was 200+ when tested as a child, and my parents were told that they couldn't measure my intelligence because I was off the charts. Fast forward: I'm just a regular person.

The pp was correct about mcps: most kids are gifted. No need to go the private route unless your kid has behavior issues.

You're using old numbers.

Curious what this means (not PP by the way).