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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being unmotivated in a non-gifted curriculum is essentially the definition of being gifted. So all of you suggesting that an unmotivated child shouldn't get into an HGC are essentially suggesting that the HGCs should be for high-achieving kids rather than gifted kids. Why don't we just go ahead an rename them "Centers for Highly Motivated for Not Gifted Kids" then? Oh, you don't like that name because you want to think your kids are gifted when they're really not?[/quote]

+1, lol--and that is why Fairfax has AAP ([b]Advanced Academic [/b][i]Programs)[/quote]

That is why we don't have HGC any more. It is CES now. [/quote]
I would rather have a center that is geared to the top 2 to 3%, or "highly gifted" than what fcps has.  And my one DC didn't make it to HGC. Why don't they just up the standards in the home school and [b]give the opportunity to ALL kids be more challenged[/b], and leave the "highly gifted" program alone?  [/quote]

Some schools put all kids in compacted math -- which would meet the definition of giving opportunity to all kids.  And yet people are complaining about that too.  [/quote]
This doesn't mean everyone should be pushed ahead. My DD's math group met twice, maybe three times last year. Another group which had children who were bright but struggling with the pace of the curriculum met every single day. During those times DD and the rest of the 20 students not in that group played on the computer. That isn't creating "opportunity" for anything. There was nothing challenging or stimulating about it.[/quote]

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