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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child is doing college level work in middle school, just skip HS and go to college.  Seriously, if they really are that special.  But I doubt it.  They are probably very smart, but not a genius like Einstein.  Smart, very well prepared, with rich parents paying for every afterschool class does not guarantee TJ admissions or a successful scientist.[/quote]
Many kids who are that special have the cognitive ability of a college kid and the maturity of a 14 year old.  They belong in gifted or magnet high schools - not college.  TJ is a perfect fit. [/quote]

TJ has never been a school for geniuses. Sure there are a few bright kids there but let's get real.[/quote]

It's not a school for geniuses, but it is the only real option for the handful of FCPS kids who are geniuses, but who aren't mature enough to start college at age 14.  Even if you assume that the IQ of kids in FCPS follows the national average, then among the 14,000 kids at each grade level, it is expected that there would be 14 kids at the 99.9th percentile and around 280 kids who are top 2% gifted.  It is likely that since FCPS has an affluent, highly educated population, there are significantly more than the expected number of 99.9th percentile/145+ IQ kids per grade level.  Where are those kids supposed to be educated if not TJ? [/quote]

Np. Seeing as I have one of these 99.9(9?) kids entering a run-of-the-mill high school I don’t understand the question. They are smart kids and can be educated anywhere. Mine does so much beyond school on her own anyway. Very smart but will he very smart and successful anywhere. I get some 99.99 kids won’t be, but it’s not because they are too smart. [/quote]

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