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[quote=Anonymous]My kids are in magnet schools.  No, my kids are not gifted. They are just regular smart kids who do well with good teachers and hard work. I do not desire acceleration at school. just enrichment.  My expectation from the school system is that curriculum is standardized and at par with the rest of the world. That is not the case right now.

If I was living in a W school, I would not even send my kids to magnet programs.  There may be some exceptionally gifted kids, but going to a magnet program does not necessarily mean that your kid is one.

I know I am going to be flamed by mamas who claim that their kids are gifted. Gifted in my opinion means a God-given intelligence, innate in you.  Which also means that they will remain gifted even if they do not get into magnet schools.  Furthermore, the process by which they are admitted to the center is not really measuring giftedness, because is there a test that can measure that? And could giftedness come in different flavors?

So in the magnet schools a majority of kids are smart, hard working, well prepared and lucky.  Not necessarily gifted in academics.

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