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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Was it worth giving up the language? I don't expect him to be fluent but I like the foundation that it is building for him. I like the idea that he can knock out 2 years of high school language in Middle School. I just know that kid return from the Center to the Base school pretty regularly. I do know other kids who really liked it, it seems to be pretty hit and miss.  [/quote]

For us, yes, it was worth it.  I feel like DC got a base for the language to study in MS, not too concerned about knocking it out too early.  I think the immersion went slower and less deep on science too--and also, the advanced math was often in English in our base depending on numbers so DC would have had less "immersion" anyway.  It was more important to us to have the deeper reading/writing/discussion.  DC regularly wrote long pieces in AAP that get detailed feedback and that doesn't seem to be the case for friends who stayed in the base school.  They did more in-depth social studies projects.  Now in MS, no regrets.  DC will take a language in 8th grade (the same one they were in immersion for) and has lots of room for other electives in 7th, which is important.[/quote]

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