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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some magnet programs are inconveniently located 1 + hour from the home.[/quote]

ES magnets are not +1 hour away from ANYONE in the county.[/quote]

You are wrong.  Factor in traffic, you have more than 1 hour.[/quote]

Is the drive not worth it for your kid's education?  I think I would try to make it work if I could.[/quote]

It is simply a factual observation: some children are over an hour away.  This isn't relative to my kids b/c of their ages.  That said, for a family dealing with a chronically ill child, cancer, job loss, financial issues, etc., yes I can certainly imagine a family deciding that adding a 1 hour commute for the child on top of all that would be too much.  Life isn't always black and white.[/quote]

None of this really answers the original question as to why such a gifted child would not be at a magnet.  The poster complained that the child should be accelerated and had the testing done on the child.  I thought perhaps magnets might be an option.[/quote]

It's simple - not enought resourses.
Magnet schools can accomodate 2-3% of the kids, while statistically, 35-40% of all children in MoCo were tested as gifted.
So, we're talking about 1/3 of the children in the county without proper accomodation. [/quote]

This is absolutely untrue. the 35-40% isn't the number of gifted.  The number gifted is really comparable to national numbers.  One of the PPs posted the Examiner links and it provides an explanation of what the numbers mean.  [/quote]
Well, I did get numbers from Gazette 
http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/03092011/montnew184800_32540.php[/quote]

I got 
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-montgomery-county-gifted-and-talented-identification-process-for-spring-2009
http://www.examiner.com/article/gifted-and-talented-education-montgomery-county-maryland
http://www.examiner.com/article/gifted-and-talented-education-is-not-a-cachet-it-is-a-need[/quote]
quote from your first link  :roll:
"As reported in this column, a system wide average of 40.9% were identified as gifted and talented in 2007–2008, compared with 39.4% in 2006–2007, 39.5% in 2005–2006, 33.8% in 2004–2005 and 44.5% in 2003–2004.  "
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