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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Profoundly gifted kids are likely to become underachiever if their parents do not figure out their abilities early on and put them in the right environment for academic and social/emotional  purposes.   There are many unidentified profoundly gifted children suffering in the general Ed classes because their parents are not education focused, and their teachers can not identify them because they are just too different than the average smart kids.  FCPS should put resources toward this population they are just as different as the kids that have learning disabilities.  [/quote]

Profoundly gifted kids have never been well served by group education.  It is unfair to expect public schools to provide a setting that must be tailor made to the child.  Genius level kids historically have always been served by individual tutors.  If you wanted to make a school for them, it would be one or two for the entire US of A.[/quote]

I think the PPs are using an IQ of 145+ as their cutoff for "profoundly gifted."  Even so, public schools cannot meet the needs of these kids.  There simply isn't enough of a critical mass of them anywhere for instruction at the appropriate level.  There isn't even an appropriate instructional level as such, since one kid with an IQ of 145+ might be at the ceiling in the WISC VCI, but only moderately gifted in other domains, while another kid might be at the ceiling in FRI, but only moderately gifted in other domains.  There is a reason that many kids in the 145+ IQ range are either homeschooled or attend Davidson Academy online.  No public school system can meet them where they are.

That being said, FCPS could certainly do a better job of trying to meet the needs of the kids who are far beyond the norm.  If they had a program more similar to the old GT one, serving only 5% of the school population, it would go a long way toward meeting the needs of the highly gifted kids.  Even AAP teachers teach toward the bottom or lowest common denominator in their classrooms, which is currently pretty low since 20% of the kids are being admitted.  [/quote]

As I understand it, the "old" GT program was closer to 10% than 5. But regardless, the current program is variable.  Some center schools teach to the lowest common denominator while other center schools teach at a high level and some students in AAP really struggle and some are left behind.  For all that everyone complains about the former, and for all that my DC has befitted from a center school like the latter, I wonder if it really is better.  Maybe they should have tracking, even (or at least) in Level IV.[/quote]

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