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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think 50% of parents I know have admitted that they did not want their kid to go to HGC.  Their kids took the test and qualified, but they wanted to give a happy childhood to their kids and did not want them to be in the pressure cooker environment, so they turned down the admission.

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The HGC is not a pressure cooker.  It is an appropriate learning environment for children who need it.

-HGC teacher[/quote]

If that's the case, why did one of the presenting teachers at the open meeting warn parents that many kids cry in the beginning? That really bothered me. The privates are rigorous and yet pride themselves on making the school experience fun & happy. 
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My dd cried the first week -- not because the academics had already begun to overload her system, but because it was a new school with new people and we'd just moved here the year she'd begun 3rd grade, so she dealt with two new schools in two years. My guess is that many kids are sad in the beginning for similar reasons -- they've been at one school for however many years and now they have to cope with a whole new set of people. I also assume that kids switching to private might cry for similar reasons if they are the type of kid who takes a while to adjust to new social situations.

I think the more important question is how many kids are still crying in the middle or at the end of the year. My daughter didn't have any tears after the first week or two of school -- and certainly never any over the "pressure cooker environment." It's work, but it's not a pressure cooker.[/quote]

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