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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public. Honestly. The strongest kids are in public. The bright kids who didn't get into the public programs? Those are the kids in the "private gifted schools." [/quote]

Really?  My preschooler can read, write, spell, add, subtract, multiply, divide and she is not yet in K.  She can read clocks, knows days, weeks, months and years.  She loves maps and even knows the 50 US states with capitols, the different continents and oceans.  Public can meet her needs?[/quote]

I would be very surprised if a preschooler learned all of the state capitals completely on her own initiative, so who has been pushing all of this academic learning? Further, much of what you described may be rote memorization rather than true understanding (which is very common in "gifted" preschoolers/kindergartners, and tends to level out very quickly once they're expected to translate that memorization to logical reasoning, making connections, etc.). Your daughter may be able to recite all of the state capitals, but does she understand what a capital is, what purposes it serves, now it functions, etc.? She may know her multiplication tables, but can she read a multi-step word problem and understand how to translate that into the proper functions? Can she face a real-world problem where she's not specifically being coached/tested in math and understand how to apply her math skills there to find a solution to her problem?[/quote]

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