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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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I completely disagree with you.  It is possible to accommodate children who need it. [b] And 3% is an arbitrary number[/b].[/quote]

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Completely agree. My kids are in HGC, Magnet MS and Magnet HS.  They are smart kids and they work hard,  and they are not the top 3% in brainpower!  How does getting into these programs automatically translate to more gray cells?

3% is really an arbitrary number.  [b]I would guess that at least 25% of MCPS kids can do as well in a HGC environment [/b](cause curriculum is the same) as those who made it through.

If the HGC can take only 3% then they need to -  1) Add more space in HGC centers  and  2) Open more HGC centers.

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I highly doubt this is true.

Even if the system did change and 25% of the population was designated as "gifted" and given "gifted" curriculum, it wouldn't really be highly gifted stuff which, by definition, targets a small percentage of the population.  It would just be "accelerated," as it is in e.g. Fairfax County.

For the record, my two kids have been through the HGC, middle school magnets, and HS magnets.  [/quote]

I agree.  What you would get is a watered down curriculum.  This is what happened in MCPS middle schools as a result of the middle school "reform".  They got rid of the honors track and offered "advanced" classes to (in some schools) most of the children because everyone wanted their kids to be in the advanced classes.  If you want a truly advanced and accelerated curriculum in our schools there has to be strict gatekeeping otherwise teachers end up teaching to the middle tier of students in their classes.  It isn't as much of an issue in most of our high schools because truly advanced kids can take AP classes[/quote]

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