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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids will be fine

If you think special programs are what's right for them more power to you

What gets me is what were people doing even say less than 20 years ago when none of these options existed and kids gasp turned out fine

All these special snowflake issues today lol

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Actually, 35 years ago in MCPS, there were pull-out gifted and talented classes in the home school.  I know because I was in one.  Mixed age group 4/5th graders.  It is where I first read Macbeth in 4th grade.  There was also a kind of differentiated math in MS called "Unified Math," where you learned IM, Alg and Geom all mixed up.  Eventually they cut out this math pathway and returned to the regular class structure.  This was in the late seventies.

Personally, these kinds of classes were critical for me.  Without the grouping with other kids of similar ability, I would have started to hide myself.  As it was I spent a large part of my life trying to dumb myself down to fit in - both with teachers and peers.  Fortunately, grouping allowed me to find some friends with similar interests and abilities.  It also allowed me to go to school and not be nored out of my mind, which, for me, tends to trigger withdrawal and depression.  There is only so mich surreptitious teading ahead or reading unassigned work and mental mind games one can get away with in a boring class.

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