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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread confirms my belief that magnet parents (many, not all) prep their kids for the magnet tests and any other standardized test known to them prior to their child taking the test.  [/quote]

You are a person that does not understand gifted children.  It's a conundrum, you have a child that will relish in learning as many digits as possible of Pi for Pi day but will refuse to say hello to a kid from their class, that they like, in public.  I have two kids, one gifted and one smart but average.  My gifted 12 year old was talking to me this morning about the forth dimension being time, and how it makes sense to her.  She wasn't asked, we did not bring this up to her but we watched a sci-fi movie and she is interested.   She reads books on the Hubble and deep space for fun.

What do we do?  We are a nerd house, Star Wars and Doctor Who fans and also do things like launch rockets and go to museums on the weekends because as a parent that's what I like to do.  If she asks for a book on space I buy it.  The other kids in her HGC were similar, not with the sci-fi and space but when they are interested in a subject they are intense and don't need much of a push from parents.

My younger, likes the things we do, but does not have the same self-motivated desire or drive to learn more.  She also has a stronger desire to be "cool' where my older gifted child could care less.

I do wish now I had pushed my daughter to study for the TPMS magnet, she made the wait list, but not the program.    She is miserable in the regular curriculum.[/quote]

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