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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a poster here who thinks she can read our minds and read our mail.  Draw your own conclusions about your children, you know nothing of ours.[/quote]

No, I have never claimed to be a mind reader.  However, if anyone says that their regular private or public school is full of kids with 150+ IQs, I know that person is either misinformed or just lying.  Once again: Statistically, 0.1% of the world's population has an IQ of 145 or above, the level required to be deemed profoundly gifted. That means that one child in about 2,000 has an IQ above 150 on the Stanford-Binet.  So if there are roughly 100,000 kids (I’m just using this number to illustrate a point) in private schools in the DC Metro area, statistically only 200 of those children will have an IQ that qualifies as profoundly gifted (200 out of 100,000!!!).  This means that Sidwell, St. Albans/NCS, etc. cannot possibly fill their seats with kids at this level.  Many of you are mistaking very bright, hardworking students for children who are profoundly gifted—they are NOT the same.  Calm down, I am not saying that profoundly gifted kids are better than the merely gifted/bright kids out there; they are just different.       [/quote]

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