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[quote=Anonymous]This is 10:16 again.  Regarding whether very high IQ children would be well served, I would say that it would depend on how self-motivated that child was.

If a child actively seeks to extend projects, do extra more-advanced work (by asking for challenge spelling lists and math extension worksheets, for example), reading more challenging books, and so forth ... then by all means, s/he will be aided and abetted by the wonderful teachers.  The teachers seem fully aware of which children really want to do the more advanced work and will facilitate that at every turn.

However, some very bright children use that brightness to gain themselves extra recess time ... they can complete the days learning very quickly and love that they can do so but do not seek extra work.  Such a child would be gently encouraged to make more use of their exceptional intellect but not forced to do so.  So I personally feel that those types of bright children might be better served by a school that is really geared for their level of ability right from the get-go.

And a final type of gifted child (that anyone spending much time on DCUM will be familiar with) is the above-average bright child that is actually pretty much the norm for the DC area.  Those kids will be well served by Burgundy, in my opinion.  Their parents, however, might not feel their child is being adequately challenged at all times.  Such parents (not to overgeneralize) tend to be the ones that pull the teachers aside to tell them that Junior is really quite exceptional in areas x,y, and z and should really be provided more challenging work than the other kids.  I am quite certain that most private school teachers in this area get that a lot ... but they are pretty good judges of the strengths of their students and are already attempting to meet kids' needs as best they can.  This is why (I suspect) Burgundy teachers pay more attention to a child's request for more challenge than to a parent's request for the same.  Hopefully I phrased this gently and diplomatically.  ;)[/quote]

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