Reply to Do all of the DC elem. public schools have "gifted" programs?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Do all of the DC elem. public schools have "gifted" programs?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My experience with a child in a Janney/Mann K is that all the kids in my child's class are extremely bright.  They all come from very successful families (for better or worse, you can't attend K at either of these schools unless you can afford a million dollar house which self selects for a universally ambitious/smart/highly educated parent population). My child's classmates all attended very highly regarded preschools and had (have) every extracurricular advantage.  So while these aren't "gifted" schools, I haven't met a single kid that isn't very bright.   There really aren't any slacker parents/kids in AU Park, Wesley Heights, Spring Valley, etc.[/quote]

Right, as usual, it's the advanced kids in the schools not in upper NW, or the few other such schools scattered throughout the city, that are the ones suffering.  Parents in the schools like yours need not worry; your children already have access to challenging curricula.

To the people suggesting there are not enough gifted kids - what makes you think that? I assure you there are; they are trapped in schools that are being beaten over the head with AYP goals.  But, please - explain how you know there are not enough gifted kids in DCPS to justify having any programs. [/quote]

Gosh we feel like we met so many not so bright social climbing parents raising kids without moral compasses and with behavioral problems at our JKLM fortunately they all go to private schools now.  And honestly smart kids do not = that intelligent kids.  Gifted kids from that group?  They go to BASIS.  That is my recommendation for a STEM gifted kid willing to work hard, and I mean hard.  BASIS is an oasis after being in an intellectual desert that is also known as Spring Valley/AU Park/Palisades. Not to say there are not some really smart cool parents with smart cool kids there, but betting on that?  And betting that your class will have those kids?  Not a good bet.  If I had it to do over, we would have tried for Yu Ying and then gone to BASIS.  BASIS is definitely our oasis.  No joke.  And very hard to find in the DC metro area, public or private, until high school unless you are willing to put up with the BASIS crap for the intellectual stimulation that your kids will get and the peer group which is fairly unparallelled[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics