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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cold Spring CES used to send 20+ students to TPMS which was more than any school before the magnet admission changes. Cold Spring has the highest scores in the county (including the non CES kids). Several of the feeder elementary schools also score extraordinarily high. The school and area is itself an outlier of high performers. The principal is great and the teachers are used to working with actual gifted and highly motivated students. [b]It is a fantastic school for kids who really get into their work and have a perfectionist streak. [/b]

[b]It would not be the greatest experience for a kid who is very smart but would rather play video games or ball outside in the afternoons.[/b] The downside of the new admission process is that the teacher recommendations used to catch which 99.9999% kid would be happy doing the work and which 99.99999% kid would not be happy doing the work. [/quote]

Can't agree with the bolded part more.

Having had a kid who has thrive in the program, I would have reservations sending my second child despite the latter being a smarter student.  Some kids benefit from the program while others seem to languish, and it does a number on their confidence entering middle school.  I think parents get so excited being offered this opportunity that they think it is some golden opportunity without thinking about the whole child.[/quote]

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