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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's all too common to think a bright and verbal 5 year old is gifted. 99% of these kids are just smart. The variation among children at that age is really wide and doesn't mean much about their abilities in the long run. Take it from a wizened old 2nd grade mom, OP-- my kid was toting Harry Potter in her backpack to PK4 and is now being perfectly well served at a regular Ward 3 DCPS. Because the other kids catch up. [/quote] +1. The skills that make a child a super strong early reader and good at early math are not the same skills that they need as they get older and are challenged by more conceptual thinking. The other kids catch up, the gifted ones don’t seem so gifted, and the slower ones don’t always seem so slow. Different skills kick on at different times for different people. The educational system also tends to even these things out over time by catching up the kids not naturally good in some areas. [/quote]
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