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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That kid is also a "CEO".

https://www.lindaslab.org/about-3

This is a standard "parent-manufactured 'genius'"  PR play. [/quote]

I agree it’s partly manufactured which is indeed off putting.

However the kid is three grades advanced and 6 grades ahead in math, putting her in Algebra 2 in 5th grade. She can more than keep up at this level, and that is impressive on its own. The CEO, mealworms, kids book writing seems more like theater but that doesn’t take away from the fact that the kid is  an outlier.

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Yep.  This kid will not struggle with the academics at TJ, and she is undoubtedly highly gifted.  It is interesting to me, though, that none of these parent manufactured math geniuses seem to have any real math credentials other than being hyperaccelerated.  Every year, FCPS seems to have 1 or 2 middle schoolers qualify for JMO, and another 15-20 qualify for AIME.  Most of these kids could have handled significantly more math acceleration if FCPS allowed it and the parents were interested.

The most interesting part of this story is just how different the Gainesville schools are with supporting highly gifted kids compared to FCPS.  FCPS is largely disinterested in letting any kids get ahead or providing any support for the highly gifted.  A lot of the top FCPS kids are learning almost nothing at school and could easily handle the materials for higher grade levels.  Apparently, OP would have been better off with placing her kid into Gainesville schools if she wanted 6th grade Algebra.

At the risk of being pedantic, people need to stop repeating that she was taking Algebra 2 in 5th grade or got admitted to TJ from 5th grade.  From the article, she skipped 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade.  She may have been a 10 year old 8th grader, but she was still fully exposed to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade materials in her classes, and she was admitted to TJ as an 8th grader taking Algebra 2.  [/quote]

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