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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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.

As an HGC parent, I have read several descriptions of the program like this one, that are really overblown. The math is the same curriculum as home school. There are more creative assignments and writing projects, but it is not like the kids are going to college in 4th Grade. In my experience the classroom atmosphere is far more noisy with kids roaming everywhere than home school.[/quote][quote][/quote]

I agree. It is not cramming but it is working on longer term projects. Kids who put too much pressure on themselves or have poor executive function can get overwhelmed but the workload is not THAT much. Many of the kids maintain their outside hobbies and friendships, though a long commute can make this somewhat more challenging. I loved the program for my child and wished my other child got into it as well because the teachers were great, the school, including the HGC, was more diverse, and the parent community was welcoming and friendly and involved.

Remember it is a HUMANITIES program not a MATH program, so kids who excel at math won't necessarily be more challenged here than at their home school.[/quote]

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