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[quote=Anonymous]There are limits to what any school system, let alone DCPS with its challenges, can do for profoundly gifted, or even highly gifted kids.

Our DS, who is probably somewhere in the latter category, was allowed to accelerate with online classes in math in middle school and is taking Calc BC in 9th. Since he had to be enrolled in a math class every year, they formally put him in a class but he would just print out IMO/IMO Short List problems every day from home and work out the proofs in class or teach himself something new. It did help him quite a bit for what he wanted but it isn't the same thing as working with an instructor. 
 
There is essentially no mechanism for middle schoolers to take college level classes in DCPS, and nor do I expect it. The dual enrollment program for high schoolers could be made stronger, but scheduling classes and transportation makes it quite challenging on the student and budgetary issues remain a constraint for the school.

In my many years lurking on this forum, I haven't really heard any practical solution for how a really talented kid's needs were managed (i.e. college classes while in high school etc.) through DCPS or a charter school -- the one kid I know of who was a concert level pianist in middle school wasn't served well in Deal and had to leave for conservatory.[/quote]

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