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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, HGC are NOT about cramming. Kids have to learn on the fly and they have to participate in fast paced learning
and they have to produce very creative original work all the time. Write a lot at school, often pages and pages.
If you have a kid who can cram at home but can not keep up with the peers they will struggle and struggle big time.
You get few kids like that at the Gifted Elementary but they are rather quickly left behind and do not get into
the Middle because again, you need teacher's evaluation and recommendation. Which teacher will recommend
less then extremely gifted kids having scores to choose from if they know that kid will need to keep up. It is huge disfavor to the kid to let them in only for the kids to struggle big time. [/quote]

I suggest you visiting a HGC classroom and observe if those kids are truly gifted or not. From my limited experience, they are truly gifted. As to middle magnet, there are people who think eastern or TP's offerings  in the non magnet components are too weak, which will hurt the overall development of the kids as many gifted kids are strong in both. [/quote]

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