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[quote=Anonymous]Re: child who has difficulty "focusing."  I'm not sure this would be a reason not to apply to HGC.  At our HGC, there were a number of kids who were GT/LD where the LD was ADD.  They definitely had focus problems, but the GT teachers were much better at handling this than the regular track teachers because they had training on the issue.

One of the classic problems with "gifted" kids is boredom/underachievement.  Kids who test high and are performing poorly are showing a red flag that needs to be examined -- why are they performing poorly?  Is there a learning disability issue like a language based disorder or attention deficit disorder (inattentive or hyperactive)?  Is the child "not paying attention" because they are being taught something that they already learned a long time ago by themselves?

Read up on these issues by googling GT/LD and and gifted/ADD, and looking at the Hoagies gifted website.

Also, there are GT/LD materials on the MCPS website.

If a child is being put in a class without a peer and the school refuses to assign the child to a class with any peers, then that is a classic reason for HGC admission -- child is not being served by homeschool. [/quote]

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