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[quote=Anonymous][quote][quote=Anonymous]This comment by Clara Hemphill bothers me:

[quote]Children need to learn that hard work is more important than being born with a high IQ. Putting them in a “gifted” class sends the opposite message.[/quote]

My child wan't doing hard work at all in his neighborhood elementary school -- he was just coasting.  Now that he is in a class for students identified as "gifted" he is being forced to work hard, and he has had to learn that everything won't come easy to him -- he needs to put forth effort and study![/quote][/quote]

+1
DC coasted K-3 until admitted to the HGC.  Now dc has to work for good grades for the first time.  The work is challenging and having a classroom full of kids that are working at the same high level has been good for dc.  We've seen a couple of mediocre grades for the first time in dc's school career and personally, I am thrilled.  DC is learning that hard work is important.  
I can see how being called "gifted" and not getting an appropriately challenging curriculum or a true peer group might give a child the wrong message but then it is incumbent on the school system to meet the child where he/she is and provide adequate challenge and stimulation.
We cannot say enough good things about the HGC experience and we're pretty depressed to going back to multiple grouping in middle school.  I am not excited about the prospect of having lots of extra worksheets and a very small peer group for dc.[/quote]

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