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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fun anecdote:

My DH begged to be realized from the then-newer FCPS GT program because he didn’t  like being separated from his friends (this was when the program was pull out and after school) but most importantly, he told his parents that he just wanted to be a “normal kid without extra homework!”

So, he quit by I think 5th grade.

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This PP. Backstory with FCPS GT program circa 1976 was devised to keep exceptionally bright, advanced students challenged and engaged. Used to be common practice in FCPS and elsewhere to keep advancing “gifted” students by advancing them a grade. I believe this program supplanted this practice.
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My oldest sibling was in inaugural GT program and might be politically incorrect to admit but our late mother was very concerned that my sibling would be in a new cohort of weirdo/nerd/social outcasts intensely focused upon academics.

DH lamenting that he wanted to be a “normal” kid speaks to the above situation. He didn’t want to be singled out or deemed “special” or be taxed with additional work and assignments, but wanted to just do what he wanted in his assigned classroom with his regular friends and teachers. Or, as he tells it, just wanted to kick the soccer ball around after school. 
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There is a modern cohort of nervous wreck, anxious and socially challenged AAP kids AND parents that always gave me pause. These students very generally
over complicate, over analyze and ignore basic social norms and can be cliquey to outright nasty bullies to the “lowly base kids.”
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My MIL told my SIL not to put my niece in the equivalent of GT in her area because "it wouldn't help her advance socially," which is the same as the bolded.

As someone who was a total nerd and actually learned how to interact with other kids at TJ, I find this reasoning odd. Yes you're often with quirky kids in these really advanced environments, but that means you have things to talk about together and you practice the art of conversation! Plus a whole class is not going to be exclusively Pointdexter types. It's just not.

And I think the stereotype right after what I bolded exists in any sort of quantity only at the high SES centers. At the mid-SES centers there just aren't enough of those families to set the tone for the entire program. Instead it just ends up being a place where kids who like math get more math challenge.[/quote]

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