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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this town, what is considered gifted? I recently received my kid's academic assessment from two different testing centers, C2 Education and Huntington. He is two grades ahead in math, and almost a full two grades below in reading. Two different evaluations, same results. I bet most of these parents claiming that their DC are gifted are not. They just read or do math at a higher level. [/quote]

I've been thinking about this and I think part of the issue might be that DC is a magnet for high achieving folks.  I was "gifted" back home, tracked as such all the way through school, etc.  But in retrospect, I was just a high achieving, smart, kid in a place where a "solid job" meant working in the lumber mill.

I think there are a lot of folks like me in the DC area - many of us are here because we "got out" of wherever we came from and got jobs in policy, academia, or politics.  Now our kids are surrounded by families just like ours, where education is valued, trips to the museum are normal, and lots of other kids are also high achieving and well-supported at home.  So we freak out when our kids aren't in a "gifted" class because WE were, and does that mean our kids are less intelligent than us?  What have we done wrong?  PANIC ENSUES.

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