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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give PPs a break, 12:42, gifted is shorthand for "advanced" or "very advanced" in public school parlance.  Truly gifted kids rarely stick around public schools of course.  They're off to Juliard, the Olympic games or maybe a grand masters chess championship.

This thread has come full circle in a sense, since it started with a Chinese immigrant dad valuing diversity in a school population less than consistent challenge for a talented child, as described in the link above via the anecdote about a Japanese math teaching method encouraging kids to stretch themselves intellectually at every turn.

I don't see real challenge in MS or HS in the District, along with decent facilities (a stage, auditorium, playing fields) without test-in admissions, and I don't see test-in MS admissions, or serious test-in HS admissions, for a decade or more, given the make-up of a not-so-enlightened DC City Council.

The best parents of truly advanced learners and Asian style hard workers can probably do is find ways to make DCPS and DC Charters work for elementary school, then beat it for MS and HS, with nobody much sad to see them go.   
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For my part, I'm sick to death of the "Basis and Deal, good-enough-for-me" crowd advising parents who understand that selective admissions promotes excellence to hit the road for the burbs!

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Why not stop saying "gifted" then?   Gifted means a specific thing that most children are not.  Just say academically talented or something. Since you really don't seem to be talking about non academically gifted kids like athletes and musicians and artists[/quote]

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