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Parents of children with super high IQ scores - where are your children in school?
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Anonymous
Perhaps your own lack of command of how to use English properly, is another reason why maybe YOU shouldn't be home schooling. Just in case it's over your head, it should be "You're (as in 'you are') the reason..blah, blah, blah 
You mean as opposed to either of these posters? Both of you, when you want to substitute periods for the words "et cetera" (known as an ellipses), you use three dots, not two and not six. If your ellipses ends a sentence, then the number of periods totals four.... Normally I can control my impulses to correct English ... but you two seem to deserve it.... |
Anonymous
| i have mine take some courses at georgetown university. She's four but very advanced. It's not Ivy League but the best the area has to offer. |
Anonymous
Yes, thanks for this, particularly the last paragraph, which was exactly the situation with my DD. She has always asked very deep questions; in 2nd grade, prior to entering the school doors, she began literally turn to me and shush me and say we can't talk about this any more here. She became aware that it was uncool for her to be interested so deeply in these subjects and uncool to be smart. Needless to say 2nd grade was her last year at that school. In our move to MoCo public schools we found a school that differentiates in math and reading, where the kids don't make fun of each other for being smart or interested in school, and where there are gifted centers available. |
Anonymous
| I was one of those kids who hid my intelligence and enthusiasm for the subject matter at hand through middle school and high school. The teachers saw right through it and despite myself I wound up at a great liberal arts college where it was cool to be smart. Looking back I am not proud of having played dumb but I don't think it really hurt me in the end. |
Anonymous
Yeah, but think of all the other bright kids at school who might have wanted more of a peer group and thus were hurt by your hiding your intelligence! I'm half-joking here, but I speak from my own experience. I was not a hider at school, and it was really upsetting when other bright kids decided to hide their abilities and blend in better with the popular kids. I saw this happen with a friend of mine in fifth grade. It had been so rewarding to have a peer who was bright and interested in academic pursuits, coming up with science experiments for us to do together, for example. And then, from my point of view, she became a hider, hanging out with the cool crowd, not participating in the academic clubs and competitions in middle school, etc. It didn't really affect her future, at least on the surface. She kept up the good grades, went to a top university, became an academic. She's probably someone I'd get along with very well today. I don't know if she'd have any regrets about her path in life (although I'm curious if she would). What I do know is that I missed her as a friend and felt at the time that she was a sell-out. |
Anonymous
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OP - it's important to ask about what the schools will do when you dc ages out of their typical high school curriculum even though they are younger now. For example, if the school goes through BC calculus for math, is there a teacher equipped to take them further one-on-one the next year? Or does the school find them a local college course or course at another school that is appropriate? If so, how do you deal with transportation and the added time burden on their schedule? A girl in my class did her math at mont college her last two years, but the commute meant she couldn't take as many credits as she wanted unless she took an evening class (which then meant she couldn't play sports).
Some of the private schools are really good at adapting core classes to challenge younger gifted kids, but their small size means they are less able to accomodate students with unique needs on their campus. (I say this as an alum, parent, and board member of a local private - so don't think I'm biased against them.) |
Anonymous
| I felt like a standout nerd in my private middle and elementary schools, where there were only 2-3 kids like me in the whole class. I begged my parents to transfer me to the local public. There, within a class of 800 or so, I found a much larger group of very bright and highly motivated kids. I no longer stood out so badly (although that ceremony for the National Merit Scholarship Awards, where I had to sit on stage with 4 other kids, still stands out in my memory). I felt much more like a normal kid within my group of new friends at the local public. Some of them went on to get PhDs, and have written op-eds for the Washington Post and/or teach at some of the best colleges in the country. |
Anonymous
| To answer the original question: DC (140 IQ) is at Washington Episcopal School. So far, so good. |
Anonymous
LMAO! Best posting on here in a while! |
Anonymous
Yes, it's incredibly witty and so very, very original. It's always a good time to have fun at the expense of parents who are looking for information about how best to meet their children's educational needs when those needs differ significantly from the vast majority of other children. Perhaps you both should take your gift for humor over to the Special Needs board and see how it flies? Oh, but wait. It won't. And you won't. Precisely because doing so is in incredibly poor taste and lacking in empathy. As it is here as well. |
Anonymous
Oh lighten up. |
Anonymous
Yes, we're all heartbroken for the parents of "special needs" high IQ children. Reminds me of the poster living in 20016 whose household income was $800,000 was crying all day that her child didn't get into the big three. I cried for her-- trying to raise a child with only Horace Mann and only $800,000 for enrichment. It's like freaking Darfur. My kid tested at 155. She's in DCPS. And she's not "special needs." She's just good at the brainy part of school. And there is much, much more to elementary school. |
Anonymous
Yes, we're all heartbroken for the parents of "special needs" high IQ children. Reminds me of the poster living in 20016 whose household income was $800,000 was crying all day that her child didn't get into the big three. I cried for her-- trying to raise a child with only Horace Mann and only $800,000 for enrichment. It's like freaking Darfur. My kid tested at 155. She's in DCPS. And she's not "special needs." She's just good at the brainy part of school. And there is much, much more to elementary school. Just because there is more to school than "the brainy part" doesn't mean that the highly gifted (or whatever one calls them) don't also have special needs. They are just as many standard deviations away from the norm as the population that we typically call "special needs." It works both ways. If you are satisfied with DCPS for your child, great. But there is no need to sneer at people who also want to pursue the most appropriate education for their children, and who have decided that DCPS is not it. And the attempted analogy to the wealthy person really isn't even close to being similar, BTW. Totally different situations. |
Anonymous
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Immediate PP again--just to clarify, my remark begins at "Just because..." The part above that was the initial quote I was responding to.
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Anonymous
Or Montgomery County, or Fairfax County, or Arlington, or ... *APPLAUSE* |