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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Differentiation occurs on the iPad. Other than that, good luck.[/quote]

But also, I will say, most of the APS N Arlington parents think their kindergarteners are advanced at [insert academic topic], so don’t worry poster, they won’t be alone in their kindergarten classroom filled with the best and brightest. [/quote]

To be fair, many N Arlington kindergartners ARE advanced because they’ve grown up in literacy rich environments with parents who help them learn about the world. When normed against local peers, my child scores in a lower percentile compared to when scores are normed nationally.

I agree that worrying about advanced kindergarten math is probably uncalled for, but I also get tired of the eye rolling about N Arlington parents all thinking their kids are above average.  On a national, statistical basis, they all may be.[/quote]

Lady, you’ll find this out in 13 years, but being special here doesn’t mean squat.  I mean, colleges will only take a certain number of kids from Arlington [and the same overeducated families in Falls Church, Fairfax, MoCo, etc.].  So the fact that we are smart here compared to the national trend won’t actually mean diddly squat unless your kiddo is planning to move to Alaska to be a professor in mathematics where they truly will be the smartest.  All anyone cares about is their peer group and this idiot poster thinks they’ve got some genius kiddo on their hands when lo and behold welcome to the big leagues where where every family in North (oh, don’t want to leave you out too and South) Arlington whose parents also attended an ivy (ok, maybe not for undergrad but definitely for some grad program like the education school at Columbia or divinity school at Yale) thinks their child has some gift.   It’s a rude awakening when you come from Ohio and were all fancy at your local high school to come here where education is the currency.  And there is always a kid smarter than yours.  [/quote]

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