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Well, when I was a kid those kids went to CTY in the summer for more enrichment. I was one of them. It never occurred to me or my parents to ask my school to create a whole curriculum for the couple of us in our school with those needs. [/quote]

This.  CTY is a great resource, and it's nearby.  But you need a certain level of preparation to even be considered.  Their qualifying standards are online, you can look them up.

I suggest these as some milestones for a curriculum that is appropriate for a kid who is very GT in math

1.  Enable the kid to qualify for CTY (I know not all kids can attend, or afford it -- I'm just talking about being prepared enough and having been exposed to enough math to take the SCAT and qualify for CTY).

2.  Expose the kid to all the material forming the basis for the questions on the AMC8, AMC10, and AMC12 exams ([url]http://amc.maa.org/[/url]) by the fall of 8th, 10th, 12th grade respectively (ie, before the test date).

3.  Be prepared at the end of high school to take a proof-based honors linear algebra course as a college freshman (Math 55 at Harvard is the most famous of these courses, but other colleges have something similar).

There are almost 150K students in MCPS, so over 10K per grade.  Somewhere in each grade there are students who have the desire, ability, and parental support for whom reaching their potential requires a curriculum that has these milestones.  Based on what parents are saying about 2.0, as implemented (it doesn't really matter what Rockville says the policy is, what matters is how each ES implements the directive), none of these milestones are attainable for any students in MCPS because they must stay on grade, going deeper.
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