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[quote=Anonymous]Preface: we don't live in a place that has gifted services, and I believe there is a benefit to students being mixed in classes until middle school. Benefits I see: When my kids went to CTY camp, the benefit I noticed of being around a group of similarly gifted kids was that they were all willing to listen to each others' esoteric conversations about their deep dive interests, whether it was paleontology, space, mechanics, art history, whatever. Kids were interested in each other, happy to listen and learn, whereas at school, these conversations get you marked as weird. That's a social hit that goes one of two ways: you are either marked for life as "uncool" or you start to suppress your interests instead of exploring and expanding them hoping to fit in better. My kids were so happy to be themselves at CTY camp.[/quote]
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