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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally agree with the subject of this discussion. I didn't know much at all about this HGC stuff, but had my son take the test just as a good experience. I started researching it online once I heard he was admitted this week, and came across these forums. Wow, they are almost enough to make one rethink getting involved in the HGC. But I can only assume, as others have said, that the majority of parents do not take this so seriously. Yikes.[/quote]

I think this is true.  It's been quite a few years but my first was at an HGC and we knew nothing of this drama before hand.  The program was great.  The kids are bright, of course, and on the whole quite similar to kids at our home school and they quickly formed a cohesive group.  The parents, however, really are a different cross section of society.  A superficial example, that I couldn't deny upon first setting foot in the open house, they're easily ten years older on average than the ES parents I was used to.  (Kind of like now going into HS meetings I can't help think we're all grayer than we were at that preschool meeting, except with the HGC there was no correlation to the kids aging.) Also, not surprisingly, much more type A.  But on the whole a reasonable bunch and not like I was constantly dealing with them. Whatever drama takes place behind the scenes, we were happily oblivious. But, yeah, I'm convinced the HGC teachers are eligible for sainthood for parental dealings alone.[/quote]

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