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Disagree. I think this area attracts highly gifted people to the area for jobs (government, contractors, IT, etc.) and therefore has a higher concentration of gifted kids.[/quote]

And many of those children of elites go to private schools.  You can't look at Fairfax County as a whole when determining how gifted FCPS kids are, since private schooling is huge and a massive game-changer.  [/quote]

The children of STEM workers at NIH, NASA, NSA, NSF, etc are not going to elite private schools.

I wasn't referring to politicians and diplomats. I don't think politicians are gifted nor are their children. [/quote]

Doctors and their children are spread across the country.  So are university professors and their children.  DC isn't a huge financial sector hub.  DC isn't really that big of a STEM hub either, other than perhaps computer programming jobs.  What we have is more lawyers and politicians than elsewhere.  We're really, truly, not more gifted than any reasonably affluent, reasonably educated area of the country.

No one said that the kids were going to "elite private schools."  Many of the highly gifted people at the top of their field are exactly the types who can afford privates, and people who can easily afford privates tend to send their kids there.  In McLean, the public schools are wonderful, yet many of the people there still send their kids to private school.  Also, my husband is a STEM worker at a company similar to the ones you listed.  Many of his coworkers put their kids in private school, at least from K-8.  Of those who don't, they're still split between APS, FCPS, LCPS, and MoCo.  There isn't some great concentration of brilliant people specifically in FCPS.

I would maybe give you twice the rate of gifted kids, meaning 4% would be in the national top 2%.  10% is ludicrous, and is just indicative of the widespread prepping.  [/quote
What are you even talking about? What does financial sector have to do with anything? We have doctors and university professors here as well on top of the STEM workers who live here. No one said anything about having only the top STEM workers sending their kids to FCPS. The high concentration of gifted STEM workers in this area alone would produce more gifted kids. And yes, there are more concentrated here.  [/quote]

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