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The best the parent of a gifted child can do in DCPS or DC charter is buy or rent in-boundary for a school without enough high SES families to work to create a home-grown pseudo GT program with PTA funding and support, e.g. at Murch and Brent.  [i]Alternatively, language immersion programs function as de facto gifted programs.[/i]

All of the above would remain true if one gifted kid (at least by VA or MD standards) were enrolled at LT, or 10, or 100....

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Wow -- you really think the ability to learn in 2 languages makes a kid "gifted"?  Guess every single kid in many European countries is by definition "gifted"

Of the many harebrained ideas floated on this every growing thread, this may be the winner.  Congratulations.[/quote]

You're misreading the post.  In DC it's true that language immersion elementary programs are the closest thing we have to GT programs, at least EotP.  Many upper middle-income parents of bright kids use immersion programs to head off the boredom that would probably come by sticking with not-so-great DCPS neighborhood schools.  I can count the number of Cluster in-boundary families I know who've headed off to Oyster, Yu Ying, Mundo Verde, Stokes, Sela etc. in search of challenge after 0-3 years at Peabody.  [/quote]

You are displaying total ignorance of what G&T education is about.  Language immersion bear absolutely no resemblance to G&T.  It's simply a different focus.  I don't want to debate the merits of immersion, as there are lots of differeing opinions, but it's by no means more rigorous or challenging than non-immersion, at least by definition. [/quote]

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