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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you all saying gifted kids will figure it out for themselves and don’t need help/resources/harder classes? Gifted doesn’t necessarily mean hard working. A lot of these kids burn out and also need direction.

I personally would like harder classes for all. One of my kids is not gifted and she’s definitely been left behind. Her classes are insanely easy, there’s no good classroom debate on any subjects, and the teachers spends all of her time focuses on kids who can still barely read. My daughter is so curious about everything and loves math but there’s nothing for her. [/quote]

I’m not saying harder classes shouldn’t be available, [b]but they are available.[/b] Maybe that collection of classes doesn’t meet your child’s needs because they are so uniquely gifted, but it still doesn’t make sense for the school to develop a whole new curriculum pathways for a single child when other options are available. Particularly if that comes at the expense of larger swaths of kids that are struggling academically.[/quote]

but they aren't. those classes are too easy.[/quote]

I truly don’t understand the logic here. The schools offer many options for kids of all intelligence and motivation levels. [b]Our school offers MVC, Linear Algebra[/b], AP calc, and AP Stats, in person at our HS. In addition they offer many math classes for kids that are less advanced. Those classes meet the needs of the vast majority of students.

For the let’s say top 3%, they will now offer cluster based accelerated programs. For the kids who are beyond that, let’s say the top .3%, there are other options available like DE and the like. My kid digs physics but there is only one AP physics class at the HS. So she took four semester of Physics classes and labs at the college.

If your kid is a truly unique, one of a kind genius that is curing cancer at 14, then I agree MCPS isn’t going to give them the best diversity of options for academic challenge. I also think it isn’t MCPS’s responsibility to meet every possible desire for a very single outlier kid. For virtually every other high stats/gifted kid it seems to me that there are a wide diversity of options that MCPS offers that can reasonable meet their needs.[/quote]

DP. Those are not offered at most schools.[/quote]

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