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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting! I hadn't heard that. I assume because it 1) isn't really full of actually gifted students and 2) that marketing keeps people who are looking at a broad range of schools away.

I don't want my kid to go to a school that labels itself like that. It reeks of self-importance. Remove the moniker and I think it sounds more appealing.[/quote]

But then it no longer actually serves the very small group it was formed to serve. The problem lies in that most people in DMV do not actually have a "gifted" child (of the number who do, who want to pay private school the number gets even smaller) in that they have an IQ above 150 cut off was and do not know that actually "gifted" students need a different pace and way of teaching than any of the other privates in this area provide. Particularly in younger years up to HS.  I think the school suffered from a lack of ability to get enough students that met the qualifying attributes when it originally opened, when it was trying to stay true to the original intent, then because of financial needs started admitting high achieving but not truly gifted students in, and now know they should not market themselves as something they are not.
Most high achieving students at the "big 3" schools are not "gifted" they are very bright and work very hard--not the same thing at all. I have a child like this at a "big 3" and have seen the difference between these sorts of kids and those who are actually gifted, and obviously so, at young ages.
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