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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to continue...the Takoma Park community does not understand what "gifted" actually means. They say that "everyone is gifted." Even the principal says this. Yes everyone has gifts, but not everyone has the "special needs" that highly gifted student have. I wish that people would take the time to truly understand these needs and not try to claw their way to gifted programs. It just leaves everyone confused and where does that leave our actual highly+ gifted students in MCPS?  So many go elsewhere. There is an entire listserv dedicated to gifted homeschoolers in our area. They just dropped out of the system. Some come back to TPMS or Blair (or other magnets) as they get older. The CES are a joke for students who excel in math. I wish people would learn what giftedness actually is (does not equate with high achievement necessarily). If they want high achiever programs they should advocate for that instead and keep gifted magnets available for truly gifted students wherever they might live in MoCo.[/quote]

Do you really think people in TP are stupid? When someone says "everyone is gifted," they are not using "gifted" in the same sense as "gifted and talented program." Can you not figure this out? You really think people here are that simplistic? Oddly, I find that my neighbors here are less grabby for GT identification than the western part of the county. Many people here are fine if their kid is not highly academic -- they care more about social justice than academic status around here. You really don't know this area at all.

FWIW, I don't think CES curriuculum deals w/ math, when my kids were at HGC, it didn't. But, the math teacher there was amazing -- none of the kids at our HGC (more competitive than CES, btw, since you seem to care about that stuff) were bored.[/quote]

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