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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the umpteenth time. Your kid is very smart. Not gifted. There are sooooo many people thinking that their child is gifted when they truly aren’t. It’s supposed to be a very very small group of kids with the most exceptional qualities of intellect that are labeled gifted. Not ones that are just “bored”.

If your child is so gifted they would display the traits of being gifted. Being bored isn’t one of them.[/quote]

You do realize OP said in the OP that the kid had been tested and was determined to be gifted...[/quote]

I was tested as a kid and “determined to be gifted,” which meant put in a gifted program from 6th grade on. But I and the rest of the kids in that program just tested well and performed well in class; we weren’t profoundly gifted. As I understand it, that’s how public school gifted programs continue to operate; they’re just taking the top ~5% of testers out and putting them in one class. If OP’s daughter is profoundly gifted, that’s a different matter, but nothing she has said leads me to believe that’s the case.

My own kids are similar to me—both reading many grades ahead from the earliest days of elementary school, one of them far ahead in math. They went to ES at Murch, which did a nice job with in-class differentiation, and they’ve both felt engaged and challenged at Deal and Wilson (the older one; the younger one isn’t there yet).

I far prefer the heterogeneous classroom experience my kids are having to the tracked gifted experience I had.[/quote]

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