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Reply to "Do Montgomery County HGC and magnet programs ever "counsel out" students who are struggling?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sam2 I wanted to clarify something you wrote in an earlier post. You said that HGCs push children to work 2 to 3 years ahead. To clarify, the kids are naturally capable of working several grades ahead and the HGCs exist to meet their needs and provide an appropriate curriculum.[/quote] In fact for many 2-3 years ahead would still not meet their needs. My DD entered the HGC in 4th grade reading an eighth grade level (or perhaps higher since that's as far as the elementary teacher could assess....) and left in 5th grade having tested at a late college/graduate school reading level. Never in her life has she been assigned a challenging book in school unless it was one she selected for herself for a independent project. And, I know that there were many peers at the HGC reading at a high school level or greater. So, I agree w/ PP that "pushing" is not really what happens at an HGC. Most are already there. [/quote] Am I correct in thinking you have a blog on your DC's experience?[/quote] I think this is kind of odd. At a certain point, it's not the level of the books you read. What I mean is -- in the HGC my kid read books that were young adult books for the most part, so below my own "reading level," yet even I found them thought provoking and engaging. No, they weren't reading DeLillo and David Foster Wallace but I think they were challenging in terms of the way they were asked to interpret the content and think about the writing. It was the discussion that was important. So to me, that doesn't mean that the program isn't meeting their needs. Sure, we all choose to read different things in our spare time and thank goodness there's a library full of books so we can find things that interest us. But once you get to a certain level, I don't think we pick books because they are written at a "late college/graduate school reading level." [/quote]
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