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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who are in the top 3% or so cannot be accommodated at the home school.  That is the point of the HGC - to provide instruction not available at the home school.  There is just no way to provide the kind of instruction the HGC provides in a regular-classroom environment, and no home school has enough of these kids to create a separate classroom.
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Actually, I've been wondering about this. There were definitely kids in my kid's home elementary school class who would have been great at the elementary HGC, but who didn't get in. And then lots of kids in the elementary HGC didn't get into the middle-school HGC. And lots of kids who were not in the elementary HGC did get into the middle-school HGC -- or so I assume, from the numbers. So were they not in the top 3%, and then they were; or they were in the top 3%, and then they weren't? I think a likelier explanation is that the system of identifying "the top 3%" doesn't work very well. And I don't blame MCPS for this, either; I don't think it's possible to design a good system for this.[/quote]

I think the selection process for the HGCs is a little less rigorous than the one for the middle school and high school magnets because the children are younger.  I remember our HGC teacher telling me that not all the kids at the HGCs are a good fit for the program.  They are all bright but not all of them can focus, get the work done, work collaboratively etc.  The children in the MS and HS magnets are on the whole hard-working, pretty disciplined AND bright.  So, it does not surprise me at all the some children who are admitted to HGCs don't get into the MS magnets.  When dc applied, around half of the kids who applied from our HGC did not get in.   [/quote]

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