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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you people not understand a Venn diagram or basic  logic?

G&T kids only make up 3-5% of the student body and almost all of them will go on to college, and typically grad school and/or professional licensure, et cetera.  Virtually all of them will make use of the AP/honors/enrichment classes to some degree or another, whether for subsequent college coursework, professionally, or otherwise.

Comparatively, the rest of the general school population won't.  In DCPS the dropout rate is 40% who won't even finish high school.  Of the remaining 60% in DCPS who do graduate, only a subset, and smaller percentage will go on to college.[/quote]

But... those top 3 % do not end up in the top 3%. So......[/quote]

Typically they do end up in the top percent not just by IQ but in grades and elsewhere as well.  My experience has been that the kids that were in G&T were also valedictorian, et cetera - otherwise generally top in their classes and most got scholarships for college.  One for example was also in the top 0.5% nationally on the PSAT and ended up getting a full scholarship to an Ivy.[/quote]

But then go on to be one of the messes in the working world. Often, unable to handle the fact they are mediocre.[/quote]

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