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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+1. My (highly gifted, but not "profoundly gifted") kid took AP calc in 8th grade at Basis.  My other kid, who is a typical UMC moderately gifted kid, took precalc in 9th.

Real profoundly gifted kids cannot be served in regular schools.  PP probably has a kid with an IQ around 145 and is calling their highly gifted kid "profoundly gifted." [/quote]

Read the message again. There were two points made that were not directly connected:

1) profoundly gifted kid was served well in Montessori
2) public school gifted programs go more than one grade ahead (as a PP previously claimed)[/quote]

We understand completely your points…we are simply taking issue with your thesis.  Your kids aren’t profoundly gifted.  99.9% of the kids in CTY aren’t profoundly gifted.

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