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[quote=Anonymous]I remember the marketing video from MCPS on this subject and read lots of posts here with parents going on about how much their children thrive and how wonderful the program.  I was excited at the prospect for my child, who always scored very high on standardized tests and really thinks in an outside-the-box way lots of times.   But he never complained about being bored in school before because he doesn't mind not working that hard.  Ha.

I was expecting him to light up and be so excited about school.   He didn't.  He often asked to return to his home school, and it was hard to get him to articulate why.  He seemed to miss friends from his home school and he didn't seem to be a good match for the particular HGC teacher he had.  He acknowledged that he liked having a peer group that kept up with his pace, and he did make some good friends.  We felt torn and a little disappointed for him.  We told him to give 5th grade a try, which he has, and he's been happier this year.  Seems like a new teacher helped things.  It can be a long day with a bus ride (for us, it meant leaving home at 8:15 and returning home around 4:45).  He didn't seem to mind the long day, but last year he was bullied on the bus ride by the older kids.  Removing him from the bus also helped.  And this year those older kids are gone. . .  We were also aware of another child in our HGC who was pretty unhappy because of some incidents related to bad behavior among classmates on the chromebooks.  Even "highly gifted" kids can be up to no good.

All this to say, it's not all sunshine and roses in the HGCs.  What we really like about it is the solid peer group of high-performing kids.  I appreciate the opportunity for my child, but I'd only give it a qualified recommendation.  [/quote]

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