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[quote=Anonymous]Google Davidson Institute for Profoundly Gifted, it’s an organization serving the profoundly gifted community.  They only accept kids above 99.9 percentile, the cut off score for WISC is 145.  They have tons of literature explaining what profoundly gifted children need to be successful, and how parents and school systems can better support their learning, emotional, and social needs.  Profoundly gifted kids don’t simply absorb knowledge, they like to dissect what the teacher say if the teachers were wrong they will let the teacher know, or come up with easier solving method and proudly explain it to the rest of the class, which can make general ed teachers very uncomfortable.  And no the corrections are not from the parents.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He does AOPS on the side.  And does Davidson Institute activities.  Public school education is not enough for him.  With the AAP environment at least he’s not afraid to say what’s on his mind especially telling teachers that they are wrong, his current teacher is much more open to kid’s opinions and what they think instead of pushing ideas into the kids’ heads.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be ready to write a good appeal letter, and read up on all the literature on giftedness.  The GBRS is very subjective, especially if you have a truly gifted child (they pick up on teachers’ mistakes all the time and tends to give their opinions in the middle of lectures, yes I got emails from his 2nd grade teacher complaining about that).  My child had 160 NNAT, 144 CoGAT, still had to do an appeal, with an 154 WISC and a good appeal letter to explain what truly gifted is they couldn’t deny him.  He’s doing great now in the AAP center, and loves him new teacher, no more frustrations with the teacher in class.[/quote]

Serious question: How can your child be happy in AAP if they are so truly gifted? Isn't AAP full of kids who are merely bright and helpful?

I also wonder why being liked or disliked by one's teacher matters so much. I mean, what does that have to do with the day-to-day experience in AAP vs gen ed? [/quote][/quote]

Interesting and all good to know. What giftedness literature did you read up on? It's kind of insane to me that a truly gifted kid would have such a hard time getting into the program. Did you prep your child for NNAT, CogAT, etc? Curious if part of the correcting the teacher habit comes from being corrected by parents.[/quote][/quote]

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