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[quote=Anonymous] [/quote] I know a few families with kids in GT programs in FCPS and these kids are smart/very bright but I wouldn't say "gifted" at least based on what the parents did to get their kids into the program.  Same for my experience in NYC.  I lot of prepping kids to do well on the exams to get in.  Same thing would happen in DC, parents of advanced kids figuring out how to get their kids in G&T programs so their kids can be challenged (which is not necessarily a bad thing).[/quote]

AA parent who was in a GT program.  Just because high-SES families figure out how to get their bright, but not necessarily gifted, kids in doesn't mean that low-SES children don't benefit.  The school system simply needs to go the extra mile to identify and include poor kids, as in my case.  The most treasured dimension of the experience was simply having many high-SES peers who exposed me to a big, fun world of travel, enrichment activities, and career and lifestyle choices I wouldn't have been aware of otherwise.  By the time I was in middle school, the program had me thinking, hey, if these guys can aspire to attend top colleges and travel, so can I, they aren't smarter/better than I am.  I hate the way educator after educator in DCPs and DC Charter has bought into the notion that low-SES kids don't need high-SES peers to excel and thrive in MS and HS.  The system seems to knock itself out to find and hire such people, although they're wrong.  At least at Brent, the low-SES kids, including the Bolling Air Force base crowd, are having their world opened, as I did.

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