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[quote=Anonymous]You don't say which school your child currently attends so it is hard to say whether the HGC will be an amazing improvement over your current school.  Other people have posted that the curriculum and peer group at the HGCs are better than most/all privates.
It is also hard to address your concern about your child's social experience.  Our experience has been great - the kids are sweet, interesting and have a lot in common with each other.  They are cohesive as a group and kind and respectful to each other.  However, they are very spread out and it is hard to meet outside of school.  Of course, if you are coming from a private, you already know how that can pose a challenge.  I know very few of the parents and we don't really go to school outside of school hours.  The other big concern is middle school.  dc got into a middle school magnet and will probably go but if you have big concerns about your home middle school, you might want to weigh that in your decision making- unless it would be easy to get back to your private in 6th grade.  I don't know anyone who regrets having their child go through the HGC experience but there is some anxiety in 5th grade about what happens next.  At our HGC, we lost two children (out of 75) at the end of fourth grade and one was because the family moved.  I also know a few kids who were reluctant to leave friends in their home elem. school and attend the HGC.  These kids did have a tough adjustment during the first couple of months  but again, they are now happy they made the move. [/quote]

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