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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are about 4 million kids in your child’s grade. Even if he is in the top 99.9 in math there are thousands in his grade like him. it’s not like it’s special. It’s good to be but not worthy of needing special radical acceleration. [b]He should be just fine in the regular public school sequence with normal acceleration[/b]. but here is where having a fun enrichment class comes into play. [/quote]

Only in NoVa are people like, "99.9th percentile.  Meh."   :lol: [/quote]

Well, it’s better than thinking “99.9th percentile. That’s 2 standard deviations above everybody. The 90th percentile math track will waste my child’s life!”

Cmon. A 1 in a thousand kid is great. Tell the grandparents. But it’s not going to get your kid special considerations. We live in a country where most districts don’t even have a gifted program for the 99th percentile kids. [b]Thousands of kids are 99.9 kids in regular classrooms. 
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None of those kids are well served in regular classrooms.  Sometimes, it's inevitable in whatever school system.  That doesn't mean it wouldn't be better for the kids to be in a more accelerated program.  By your logic, AAP and all gifted programs are pointless and should be abolished.  After all, if a 99.9th percentile kid doesn't need more than a 90th percentile kid, why would a 98th percentile kid need anything more than a completely average kid?  In both cases, the separation is around 2 standard deviations.

DYS, Hoagies Gifted, and any psychologist who has studied gifted ed would strongly disagree with you that a 99.9th percentile kid is nothing special and is perfectly fine in the regular tracks in regular school.  In a typical K-6 school with around 1000 students, that 99.9th percentile kid is the smartest kid in the entire school and decently beyond anyone else in the same grade level.  [/quote]

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