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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like it's a program for compliant bright kids who are willing to give up most of their time and interests due to an extremely heavy work load and not geared for truly highly gifted+ children who REALLY need a self-contained gifted class where their passions and high motivation for learning leads their education. [/quote]

[b]HGC is for moderately gifted and advanced students, period. [/b]Their behavior runs the gamut, and some have learning disorders, just like in any other MCPS classroom. The workload is a little more heavy than in the standard 4th and 5th grade, but since most of these kids work quickly, it is generally not an issue. My gifted and learning disabled son works extremely slowly, so it would have been an issue in his case.

However HGC is a misnomer - the highly or profoundly gifted are NOT well served by the HGC. There is actually no public service available for profoundly gifted students here. The reason is that it makes little economic sense to spend public money on a handful of students, so they are lumped in with the advanced students, which often does not work out that well. Since they are extremely rare, no one cares enough to do anything else, unfortunately.
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Who are you to make such a pronouncement, the emperor?  Of course there are a handful of highly gifted kids in the Center program, and at least some of them are well-served there.

My three kids have all gone through the Center program.  One is at a top university now, doing very high-level work.  He is definitely "highly gifted" by any definition of that term.  He was very well-served by the Center program.[/quote]

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