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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you've gotten a lot of good advice. I looked into MCPS HGCs (for 4th - 5th) but was completely turned off when a teacher kicked off the evening presentation to a packed auditorium full of parents by explaining how so many kids cry at the beginning of the school year.

I suggest private school. Much better equipped to deal with anxious but gifted children. [/quote]

Wow! I have never seen this phenomenon of crying on the first day in HGC and I have had three kids who went through the program. I was very involved in the classroom, and there was only one child who was special needs who was apt to get frustrated and tearful at times.  However, the parents who volunteered actually rallied around the child and classmates started to be around him to console him when he became weepy. The students, parents and teachers showed a lot of compassion and he found coping mechanism through their support.

That you were completely turned off by what a teacher said says a lot more about you than the program. You are underestimating the hearts of these children. They know that their some of their classmates are anxious and quirky and tend to rally around them.[/quote]

This is the PP. Did you really find it necessary to take a swipe at me? Perhaps the program was different when your kids went thru it. How many years ago was it and which HGC? The teacher talked about the crying at the parents evening meeting held last fall at a high school in or bordering Germantown. (I work up there but we live down county so I don't recall the HS names up there). [/quote]

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