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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to get your kids into HGC is also a way to mitigate any curriculum 2.0 ill effects. Even is the curriculum is not accelerated in HGC at least it is enriched.[/quote]

MoCo has a very small GT program given the large student body it seeks to serve. 
It's overcapacity as it is, blackbox app process, and serves a smaller percentage of students than Fairfax or Arlington GT programs can and do.  One quality-of-life downside, the 1 hour one-way bus ride or you drive it/car pool in rush hour.[/quote]

Yes, the MoCo HGC centers for 4th/5th grades are great...and it's not necessarily so that there's a one-hour bus ride...it depends where you live and where the HGC school is  :) ; my DS just completed 5th at an HCG and his bus ride was 10 minutes. The school was not in our immediate neighborhood, but near enough.

IMO the downside of the HGCs is that after 2 yrs there, the kids make friends with their peers/classmates, but for 6th grade - middle school - the kids in the HGC classes end up going to many different schools - various magnets, back to the home school, some choose private, etc.  [/quote]

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