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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no public school system (or even private) that would ever be able to adequately meet the needs of a profoundly gifted student. “Gifted” programs are typically only providing curriculum that is one year advanced and only meets the needs of high achievers. This is why most profoundly gifted students are homeschooled. Your best bet would be to put your child in a Montessori school.[/quote]

Montessori is often disastrous for profoundly gifted kids.

Plenty of kids in this category do well in public or private school.  [/quote]

Lots of incorrect information. Montessori was great for my profoundly gifted child precisely because there are no boundaries to what they can learn. And the “gifted” programs in MCPS go much beyond one grade level ahead. The elementary CES program offers English/social science instruction and content that is largely 3-4 grades ahead. The middle school magnets accelerate the kids in math by 2-3 years by the end of middle school. The high school magnets are even more accelerated with kids taking precalculus in 9th grade.[/quote]

A kid taking Precalc in 9th grade is not profoundly gifted…there plenty of kids coming from Deal to Walls and JR that are taking Precalc in 9th grade.

Stop referring to your kids as profoundly gifted…they are not.  They are really smart just like millions of kids.[/quote]

That kids can take precalculus in 9th in MCPS has nothing to do with whether my kid is or isn’t profoundly gifted. It was offered as response to the claim that gifted programs only go one grade ahead. [/quote]

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