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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think nation-wide there is a move away from the notion of gifted and talented.  What I have seen are magnet schools that provide advanced academics so either smart or very hard working kids can get in.  [/quote]

Indeed.  I was just having this conversation with my kid who is in a MoCo magnet (no worries, we did DCPS at one point).  She says that there are some kids in magnet who are bright but maybe not geniuses. Instead these kids are very hard workers.

This raises a different sort of question:  don't kids who want to work hard and take on challenges deserve an opportunity to do that, too?  These are the kids who are reading Harry Potter in 3rd grade when everybody else has just started chapter books. Reading Harry Potter in 3rd grade doesn't necessarily make them (or my kids) geniuses, but they are bored in a school that doesn't let them advance ahead of the kids who aren't so into reading or math or whatever.  With the de-emphasis on tracking, and all the demands placed on teachers (with whom I sympathize), individualized attention can be tough to get.

So is the purpose of a magnet to take only the top 1% on IQ tests?  Or should it be expanded to take other kids who may be at 90% but want to do the magnet work?

Sorry, no answers here.  Just something we were pondering.[/quote]

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