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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other reason I decided to do HGC for my child (beyond the fact that my child desperately wanted to do HGC) is that from what I've heard [b]it gives these exceptionally bright children time management and project management skills they don't get elsewhere.[/b]  My kid is scattered.  I was the same way.  If I had been taught those skills early, I think it would have made a big difference for me later on.  Also, my kid was already starting to coast at the beginning of 3rd grade and believe that he was all that and a bag of chips.  He needs to be challenged by his peers and realize that he's going to have to work for it.  I am hopeful that after 2 years he'll want to go to TPMS because I think that offers a better education and he will have peers that go there as well - and this is even though we go to a W HS, but it will be up to him.[/quote]

In my experience this is 100% true.  My son is the quintessential absent-minded professor, but he really pulled it together during his time in the HGC.  It has served him well in middle school (TPMS).[/quote]

Totally, totally true.  Our kid made huge strides in this regard.  Still more work to do, but two more years of coasting in the home ES would have spelled utter disaster for MS and HS.  Like the PP above, I wish I'd had an opportunity like this to learn these key skills.[/quote]

My DC is going to HGC next fall.  I am so looking forward to this aspect of it, if nothing else, but I know there are other advantages to HGC.[/quote]

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