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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Md is moving in the direction of the FCPS model and they will be sorry[/quote]
Why?[/quote]
DP.. a program designed for the top 2 to 3% is going to look different than a program designed for the top 20%.  The caliber of work won't be the same.[/quote]

And yet people complain that there are many more kids that could be served in the MCPS gifted program. Wouldn't opening it up to more be one solution?[/quote]
Depends on what "your" goal is.  If you are looking for just an "enriched" program, then yes. But if the goal is to keep it as  "gifted" program, then no.  Gifted doesn't mean top 20% of your student body.  An above average student who works hard to get that grade is not gifted.  If that is no longer the purpose of CES (which sounds like it isn't), then it's fine to open it up to the more hard working kids.  But, HGC used to be designed for those kids who were not necessarily the harder working kids, but the kids whose intelligence was really above and beyond but not necessarily hard working.[/quote]

We can soon join forces with Fairfax AAP which serves many more kids but parents say it does not actually serve the needs of gifted kids..just above average kids that could be accommodated in a typical classroom.   [/quote]
This is exactly what's going to happen in MCPS.  They should've just kept HGC at the few centers the way it was, and have local programs at home schools.[/quote]

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