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[quote=Anonymous]HGCs are wonderful for students who enjoy writing, projects and are self motivated/can stay on task work independently. The HGCs don't do much math acceleration. I have one HGC child and 1 ADHD child. My ADHD child struggles with writing even though he understands the concepts, have great ideas and knows the answer. He just can not write it down in a timely manner. He also compensated early on but the ADHD was obvious from the level of hyper activity.

This completely knocks him out of the candidate pool for HGC even though his IQ is higher than his HGC older sibling. He would struggle with the writing output requirements and need an aide to keep him on task with independent work.

MCPS really fails bright kids with learning disabilities. MCPS is perfectly happy for the child to produce no work and stay at the same level year after year as long as they don't fall below the bottom bar. Its VERY hard to get accommodations enforced in MCPS. I hope that the burden of proof legislation passes because there is a horrible arrogance in MCPS that we don't have to provide the accommodations we agreed to in the IEP or 504 because they are NEVER required to document that they did this.

Unless this changes, your child will have a roller coaster in MCPS. Some years you'll get a great teacher who takes it on herself to provide accommodation and your kid will soar. The next year you'll get a teacher who ignores them and your child will end the year no farther than when he started. [/quote]

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