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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am reading all of the threads about HGC and have a question.  I am a Kindergarten mom so I know I [b]have a few years before this is even an option.[/b]  But my question is, what made you decide to apply for HGC?  Is it something that the school encourages certain students to apply for or do parents take it upon themselves to apply if it is interesting to them?  Just wondering how you knew that HGC might be an appropriate avenue for your child.  Thanks![/quote]

1. Not really few years. If your kid is a K student now, then there is just first grade left and they are tested in the middle of the second grade
so you are technically more less 1 and a bit year away from the major assessment that will impact his eligibility.

2. You will know. If your kid will be constantly complaining that he she is bored with the material and the teacher constantly is giving him her
additional work to do because all other kids are still struggling with the first worksheet and your kid is on the tenth and asking for the next one
just to kill the time to the recess... Basically Highly Gifted children are above and beyond the grade level. It is like having a third grader
In the first grade pretty much. So watch for the signs. A child has wider, deeper thinking, analytical skills, all and more well beyond the grade level
those kids are in most cases the candidates for Gifted Centers.

The reasons you want to send your child to Gifted program is to provide him her appropriate instructions that are adequate to their capabilities
and needs. Look at that as if you have a third grader who will fit perfectly well with bunch of kids who are just like him in the Gifted Center
as opposed to getting to the third grade and being ridiculed by peers for being a geek, nerd etc. and starting dumbing down to "fit in".

I would not struggle with trying to stretch your kid to "fit in" into Gifted Program at all cost because just as the gifted kid struggles in non-gifted
class environment, the opposite is true to non gifted kids who by some chance end up in Gifted Center. They struggle in different way,
being that kid that does not fit in. You can do more damage to a kid to push him where he will be  struggled and be the bottom of the class student
as opposed to keeping up with peers at regular school and being in the top of the class.

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