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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I was your kid in an era and location when public schools did much more acceleration for students more than two standard deviations above the mean than MCPS does today. As a result, I had access to: grade-advanced math and language, an earlier end to formal "reading" instruction (which was replaced in the day with an amazing multidisciplinary "enrichment" class), a special afterschool art program, etc.

Classmates of mine who were sufficiently mathematically advanced got sent from middle and hs to take differential equations at a local institution (which happened to be an Ivy League institution).

It was fantastic and of course I wish MCPS did it as well, but the reality is that you are mistaken about their legal obligation.

They are required to make it maximally possible for each child to access the prescribed curriculum for that grade level. This is why "special" resources are focused on kids who are have conditions impeding their ability to learn at grade level. Your kid does not have that problem and therefore does not have that legal right to "special" resources.

Does it suck? Yes it does. Nerds as a bloc are not politically popular. But also, for better or worse, we tend to observe earlier when a system is not going to provide what we need and move on mentally something else, even if our physical bodies stay in our schools of record. And we do just fine academically, over a lifetime, when we do this.

You encouraging your child to regard what is going on at school as boring and worthy of mental divestment, on the other hand, is a problem.

The music class is a perfect example--no musician on earth is above learning or re-learning or playing around more with a particular rhythm.

Not everything about school is about maximum possible curricular achievement. Your child also has to be prepared for an entire life ahead in which many people they work with, or for, or God forbid have to manage, will be slower to grasp the thread. That takes practice, too.

Good luck. [/quote]

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