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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the definition of gifted? Honestly. I have seen the website that people post.

My kid scored a 135 on the CogAT, I believe that put him in the 98th or 99th percentile. He has had other exams given to him by the school because he has an IEP. He was in the 99th percentile on those exams. He is, undeniably, a smart kid who is curious. But gifted? I don't know.

School is boring for him. He is in RSM math, he does the regular class and the math competition program. The competition program is the only math he has that he honestly has to work at and think about. He might need help with a concept on the regular RSM math but he gets it pretty fast. The RSM is way ahead of the in school math. They are comparing fractions and decimals in school but have been balancing equations and are starting on graphing at RSM.

We deferred AAP to stay at a language immersion program because that actually challenges him. But he is asking about changing schools next year because math, science, and LA are not challenging. My heartburn is that I don't think moving to the Center will actually challenge him any more then Advanced Math does and he would lose the one part of school we know does challenge him.

If the Center offered a program that would really challenge him I would move in a heartbeat but I just don't think that it will. [/quote]

We moved our kid who has a 145 Cogat out of immersion to AAP (to a center that is regarded as middling) and it's definitely more of a challenge.  Not so much the math--that's about the same as advanced math in our base-- but the reading/writing/analysis.  It's not perfect, but it's better. [/quote]

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