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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm in MoCo. Everyone here is gifted. Everyone. I'm not dissing your kid; my kids are not gifted. But apparently literally every single other kid they go to school with is. They don't even offer anything below advanced English at my older child's middle school.

So you'll fit right in here, and from what little I know of the AAP drama in Fairfax, you'll do just fine there as well.[/quote]

I'm in MoCo too and I think what you mean is that everyone here (well, in some schools) is well prepared, well coached, and high achieving.  High achieving and gifted are not the same.  In fact, a lot of kids are gifted without being high achieving.

/parent of high achieving but not gifted kids[/quote]

i agree with you both. But here in Moco the term for being high achieving is "gifted" it applies to about 40% of the school population.

OP put her in a normal school with a gifted magnet. Chevy Chase Elementary is one of them.

If you put her in HG she will be socially isolated and maybe have to spend a long time on buses every day - tough when you're little, or have to return to the regular gifted programs and then start again socially. And she doesn't sound like HG to be completely honest...[/quote]

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