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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am looking at this thread in amazement. We are taking about third grade kids. They are so little you have no idea who will be the great students down the road. I have an older child and there are kids who are rocks stars at older students who were a hot mess in third grade. Placement after third is about factors beyond the kids. Great that everyone is happy with their placement.[/quote]

I now have two children at university, and I would respectfully disagree.  In many cases by third grade, through a combination of maturity of presentation and speech, ability to easily understand higher math concepts, early grades and standardized testing (ERBs), you can determine - with a surprising degree of accuracy - which children are academically gifted, and will excel at their studies.  I would argue you can similarly tell at a young age which students are musically or artistically gifted, athletically talented, or socially adept.

When I look back at the students considered to be the "smartest" in elementary school by their peers (in my own children's classes) at one of these k-12 schools, they by-and-large (with the exception of one student who fell into a fast, party crowd) ended up at Cambridge, Chicago, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Oxford, Stanford, and Yale.

What you cannot necessarily predict by third grade is which of these children will grow up to be happy, adaptable, kind, free from anxiety or depression, successful in life, and able to avoid the pitfalls of substance abuse.  Those things do not necessarily go hand-in-hand with being academically gifted, but are no less valuable attributes in my opinion.[/quote]

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