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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]op, you've been given some good advice here about how the system works in MCPS. I have one child in private and one in MCPS. If you were set on a private, I worry that you would not be happy with MCPS -- and their are no guarantees anyway. I'd probably opt for Blair/Eastern or Poolesville -- two radically different areas but with great magnet programs that you are more likely to get in if you live close by. But in the meantime, your youngest would be bored for years as the HGCs don't start till 4th grade. I'd suggest you either suck it up for a year with public for your youngest child & then reapply, OR apply them both to K-8 schools, which seem to have more openings. [/quote]

How can you assume that her child would be "bored for years" without knowing the child's background?  Who knows how gifted and talented is tested in other areas.  Unless you're familiar with systems outside of MCPS (and I doubt you are), you shouldn't make assumptions.

Nor should you assume that OP's children will get into the MS and HS magnets.  They are VERY selective, and only the top tier gets in.

Furthermore, I highly doubt OP's kids are any smarter than half the kids in MCPS.

Everyone's kid is gifted. . . 
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This is 18:41. I took her at her word; that her kids tested as gifted. If she took private school entrance exams, as they would have, they include IQ and other tests vs. the local population of private school students. And THOSE tests are eye opening. My child who was "gifted" in MCPS aka advanced English, one grade level up... and in top of boys in his grade in a "W" school was found to be ONLY in the 30th% in English as compared to private school peers. SO, if after taking the private school exams she says her kids are "gifted," I believe her. And yes, for gifted kids in a MCPS there is very little challenge for years...[/quote]

My kid took the private school entrance exams. He scored in the 90s (percentile) relative to the private school cohort. He's smart, but not what I would consider gifted. He went to a W school and was plenty challenged. [/quote]

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