Best elementary private school in northern va for profoundly gifted child

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^^ That was meant to be direccted to OP. And "horried" should have been "horrid". Time to go to bed.

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You can nourish the "gifts" while developing the areas such as working with others, leadership, teamwork and social skills which are usually not as developed for those kids at the very top intellectually and which will benefit them more as adults. Focus on bringing up the weak areas instead of the academics. Those will be easy regardless but without well developed EQ odds are good that the "gifts" will be wasted or not reached to their potential.

The information in this paragraph is so important, and so commonly forgotten. As parents, we are supposed to be rearing our children to be good adults. We need to be helping them in all areas of their growth and development and be careful not to focus exclusively on their academics just because they are very bright.

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Anonymous wrote:My thought is if your child had actually been identified as "profoundly gifted" you would have been provided plenty of information about resources by the screener.

not true! they just email you the test results...

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Executive Academy

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Can't help with private school recommendation, but have an observation. Our friends with a profoundly gifted child stuck with public school through 8th grade and then transferred her to Mary Baldwin College's program for early college-ready kids. Yes, at age 14. (I think that program is only for girls.) She did that for a year while adapting to life away from mom and dad and then went on to U-Va. She will graduate at 17 after 3 years total in college. They had only one year of spending an arm and a leg for private education, and I say this as a parent of a 95th percentile IQ kid (ie, not "smart enough" for academic advancement) who cost me a fortune in private schools to have her needs met!

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Anonymous wrote:OP - I'm not convinced Nysmtih actually attracts truly gifted kids and educates them well. That's what they say they do but I've observed for a long time and don't buy it. Don't buy the Edlin line either. The gifted programs in FCPS are better. If you do try a college-level course while your child still is in high school, as we did for DC, select the professor carefully. A particular chemistry professor had horried RateMyProfessor.com ratings but we went ahead with the course because it fit our schedule better than the chemistry course at GMU. Big mistake. The professor was worse than the RateMyProfessor ratings. She was just calling it in - didn't give a damn about teaching.

Well we have our 150+Iq kids there and there abput 1/3 of the kids there with higher Iq in those 130+ amd 140+ ranges. the rest are 120+. but curriculum-wise they do help kids get different levels math and enough real project work in english, social studies, and science that gifted kids in the higher levels can rise to the challenge. Socially the kids value academic skill and there is no downside to being a smart kid and nysmith - quite the opposite. So in the sense it is a positive place for gifted kids including the 150+ type. And to be fair the AAP program has thse kids as well and mostly has a culture that is positive for smart children albeit with larger class sizes amd fewer opporutinities to run ahead on the math without pushing for it and advocating for your child.

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Nysmith for k-8. In US your child's needs can be met by any of the more rigorous big 3 schools - NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS if they take the most rigorous courses. All have college level writing programs and can get to post BC mathematics.

not in my kids case--DD tried the most rigorous courses in a top 3 and it wasn't nearly enough (she is profoundly gifted). currently homeschooling herself with support from various tutors, including some adjunct college profs who work w her.
it sucks, actually.

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Anyone who refers to her kid (let alone posts) as a "profoundly gifted child" should soak her head in a bucket.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Nysmith for k-8. In US your child's needs can be met by any of the more rigorous big 3 schools - NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS if they take the most rigorous courses. All have college level writing programs and can get to post BC mathematics.

not in my kids case--DD tried the most rigorous courses in a top 3 and it wasn't nearly enough (she is profoundly gifted). currently homeschooling herself with support from various tutors, including some adjunct college profs who work w her.
it sucks, actually.

This sounds so sad and lonely!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Nysmith for k-8. In US your child's needs can be met by any of the more rigorous big 3 schools - NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS if they take the most rigorous courses. All have college level writing programs and can get to post BC mathematics.

not in my kids case--DD tried the most rigorous courses in a top 3 and it wasn't nearly enough (she is profoundly gifted). currently homeschooling herself with support from various tutors, including some adjunct college profs who work w her.
it sucks, actually.

Hard to believe that she has moved beyond the uppermost level classes at a school like GDS, where the humanities and social sciences coursework is as open-ended and sophisticated as a student is capable. International Math Olympiad students are able to get math instruction at GDS (and then graduate early for early enrollement a top research university). How is it that a "top 3" program was unable to meet the intellectual needs of your child?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who refers to her kid (let alone posts) as a "profoundly gifted child" should soak her head in a bucket.

This is a sad and clueless troll statement.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Nysmith for k-8. In US your child's needs can be met by any of the more rigorous big 3 schools - NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS if they take the most rigorous courses. All have college level writing programs and can get to post BC mathematics.

not in my kids case--DD tried the most rigorous courses in a top 3 and it wasn't nearly enough (she is profoundly gifted). currently homeschooling herself with support from various tutors, including some adjunct college profs who work w her.
it sucks, actually.

Hard to believe that she has moved beyond the uppermost level classes at a school like GDS, where the humanities and social sciences coursework is as open-ended and sophisticated as a student is capable. International Math Olympiad students are able to get math instruction at GDS (and then graduate early for early enrollement a top research university). How is it that a "top 3" program was unable to meet the intellectual needs of your child?

Really? That's hard for you to believe? Do you think GDS would be able to accommodate the undergraduate and graduate students you know? Maybe you have no experience with profoundly gifted teens, but you should at least be able to imagine what it is like to have moved beyond HS academics at a young age.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - I'm not convinced Nysmtih actually attracts truly gifted kids and educates them well. That's what they say they do but I've observed for a long time and don't buy it. Don't buy the Edlin line either. The gifted programs in FCPS are better. If you do try a college-level course while your child still is in high school, as we did for DC, select the professor carefully. A particular chemistry professor had horried RateMyProfessor.com ratings but we went ahead with the course because it fit our schedule better than the chemistry course at GMU. Big mistake. The professor was worse than the RateMyProfessor ratings. She was just calling it in - didn't give a damn about teaching.

Well we have our 150+Iq kids there and there abput 1/3 of the kids there with higher Iq in those 130+ amd 140+ ranges. the rest are 120+. but curriculum-wise they do help kids get different levels math and enough real project work in english, social studies, and science that gifted kids in the higher levels can rise to the challenge. Socially the kids value academic skill and there is no downside to being a smart kid and nysmith - quite the opposite. So in the sense it is a positive place for gifted kids including the 150+ type. And to be fair the AAP program has thse kids as well and mostly has a culture that is positive for smart children albeit with larger class sizes amd fewer opporutinities to run ahead on the math without pushing for it and advocating for your child.

How do you know the IQ scores of the kids at the school your kid attends?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Nysmith for k-8. In US your child's needs can be met by any of the more rigorous big 3 schools - NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS if they take the most rigorous courses. All have college level writing programs and can get to post BC mathematics.

not in my kids case--DD tried the most rigorous courses in a top 3 and it wasn't nearly enough (she is profoundly gifted). currently homeschooling herself with support from various tutors, including some adjunct college profs who work w her.
it sucks, actually.

Hard to believe that she has moved beyond the uppermost level classes at a school like GDS, where the humanities and social sciences coursework is as open-ended and sophisticated as a student is capable. International Math Olympiad students are able to get math instruction at GDS (and then graduate early for early enrollement a top research university). How is it that a "top 3" program was unable to meet the intellectual needs of your child?

Doesn't really matter to me if you believe it or not, but it happens to be true, for my kid. The school itself said that they had taken her as far as they could.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say Nysmith for k-8. In US your child's needs can be met by any of the more rigorous big 3 schools - NCS/STA, Sidwell, GDS if they take the most rigorous courses. All have college level writing programs and can get to post BC mathematics.

not in my kids case--DD tried the most rigorous courses in a top 3 and it wasn't nearly enough (she is profoundly gifted). currently homeschooling herself with support from various tutors, including some adjunct college profs who work w her.
it sucks, actually.

This sounds so sad and lonely!

It really is. Well, kind of. We would both prefer that she be in a school that challenged her. But she does have some friends, both from when she was in school, online and also she takes a couple just for fun classes--a recreational gymnastics class, a poetry class...so she meets people through there. Right now we're trying to figure out college. We have 2 older daughters who did just fine in good publics and got decent aid packages for solid colleges where they are thriving. This...is not like that.