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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Just to continue...the Takoma Park community does not understand what "gifted" actually means. They say that "everyone is gifted." Even the principal says this. Yes everyone has gifts, but not everyone has the "special needs" that highly gifted student have. I wish that people would take the time to truly understand these needs and not try to claw their way to gifted programs. It just leaves everyone confused and where does that leave our actual highly+ gifted students in MCPS? So many go elsewhere. There is an entire listserv dedicated to gifted homeschoolers in our area. They just dropped out of the system. Some come back to TPMS or Blair (or other magnets) as they get older. The CES are a joke for students who excel in math. I wish people would learn what giftedness actually is (does not equate with high achievement necessarily). If they want high achiever programs they should advocate for that instead and keep gifted magnets available for truly gifted students wherever they might live in MoCo.[/quote]

I think this is very true. Its really strange that a gifted magnet with so few seats and so many kids across the county would waste 1/3 of them on kids that really shouldn't be in it. I do think that the growing class sizes, changing demographics, lack of tracking and other accelerated programs in ES and MS have made parents with smart but not gifted students more desperate to get in and devestated when they do not. One of DC's good friends is switching to private because he didn't get into the CES program. They may come back is he gets into one if the MS or HS magnet but many people in TP go private if they can't be in the special program. None of these kids are gifted but they are smart and capable. [/quote]

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