Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I don't think my child is gifted, but she is like a little sponge that takes in information quickly & has high curiosity of things that she is interested.

She likes her brain to be stimulated & active 24/7 except sleep time. Every week, she has daily after school clubs/1x swimming/1x chess club/3x foreign language class/1x soccer/many playground time to keep her busy. We are not home till 7pm, and she is obsessed with the internet world either watching silly youtube videos or watching videos related to science/geography/history/space. If I don't let her use computer/TV, she will read books( comic books or chapter books or graphic encyclopedia) or find someone to play boardgame/chess or ask me to print out math sheets for her to do or want to go outside to play.

The school cannot satisfy her curiosity & does not stimulate her brain enough that she needs to seek out other things to do after school. I wish the school can do some enrichment or form small group for kids like that at early grades.

The schools won’t. Maybe a pull-out reading group meeting once a week in 2nd or 3rd, but that’s no big deal. Plus, lots of variability in development rates at that age, so wait a few years before anointing her.

If you REALLY think your kid is so bored at school that it is turning them off to school, then consider private. But choose wisely.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I don't think my child is gifted, but she is like a little sponge that takes in information quickly & has high curiosity of things that she is interested.

She likes her brain to be stimulated & active 24/7 except sleep time. Every week, she has daily after school clubs/1x swimming/1x chess club/3x foreign language class/1x soccer/many playground time to keep her busy. We are not home till 7pm, and she is obsessed with the internet world either watching silly youtube videos or watching videos related to science/geography/history/space. If I don't let her use computer/TV, she will read books( comic books or chapter books or graphic encyclopedia) or find someone to play boardgame/chess or ask me to print out math sheets for her to do or want to go outside to play.

The school cannot satisfy her curiosity & does not stimulate her brain enough that she needs to seek out other things to do after school. I wish the school can do some enrichment or form small group for kids like that at early grades.

OP, you’re describing every privileged child ever. She watches silly YouTube videos and you take that as evidence that she isn’t being fulfilled at school? But watching science videos is also proof she isn’t being fulfilled at school?

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I don't think my child is gifted, but she is like a little sponge that takes in information quickly & has high curiosity of things that she is interested.

She likes her brain to be stimulated & active 24/7 except sleep time. Every week, she has daily after school clubs/1x swimming/1x chess club/3x foreign language class/1x soccer/many playground time to keep her busy. We are not home till 7pm, and she is obsessed with the internet world either watching silly youtube videos or watching videos related to science/geography/history/space. If I don't let her use computer/TV, she will read books( comic books or chapter books or graphic encyclopedia) or find someone to play boardgame/chess or ask me to print out math sheets for her to do or want to go outside to play.

The school cannot satisfy her curiosity & does not stimulate her brain enough that she needs to seek out other things to do after school. I wish the school can do some enrichment or form small group for kids like that at early grades.

You daughter watches video games and books after school so the school mustn't be satisfying her curiosity. Got it.
First child?

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I don't think my child is gifted, but she is like a little sponge that takes in information quickly & has high curiosity of things that she is interested.

She likes her brain to be stimulated & active 24/7 except sleep time. Every week, she has daily after school clubs/1x swimming/1x chess club/3x foreign language class/1x soccer/many playground time to keep her busy. We are not home till 7pm, and she is obsessed with the internet world either watching silly youtube videos or watching videos related to science/geography/history/space. If I don't let her use computer/TV, she will read books( comic books or chapter books or graphic encyclopedia) or find someone to play boardgame/chess or ask me to print out math sheets for her to do or want to go outside to play.

The school cannot satisfy her curiosity & does not stimulate her brain enough that she needs to seek out other things to do after school. I wish the school can do some enrichment or form small group for kids like that at early grades.

So she likes screens, books, board games, math and playing outside! Sounds great.

This is OP. I don't think my child is gifted, but she is like a little sponge that takes in information quickly & has high curiosity of things that she is interested.

She likes her brain to be stimulated & active 24/7 except sleep time. Every week, she has daily after school clubs/1x swimming/1x chess club/3x foreign language class/1x soccer/many playground time to keep her busy. We are not home till 7pm, and she is obsessed with the internet world either watching silly youtube videos or watching videos related to science/geography/history/space. If I don't let her use computer/TV, she will read books( comic books or chapter books or graphic encyclopedia) or find someone to play boardgame/chess or ask me to print out math sheets for her to do or want to go outside to play.

The school cannot satisfy her curiosity & does not stimulate her brain enough that she needs to seek out other things to do after school. I wish the school can do some enrichment or form small group for kids like that at early grades.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow you belong on dcum, such negativity “cram more down their throats” lol.

He needed help getting his curiosity satisfied, and so that’s what teachers and parents did. Am sure he’s headed for a full ride at Stanford at an early age. Good kid

At no point did the child show/express any unsatiated curiosity.
It's a teacher telling a mother (a year after the fact) that they should push the kid into MOAR!!!!!!!!!

And you know this, how, troll? Lol

I'm no gifted child but that's exactly how the original post reads.

Kids have different educational needs within the instructional bailiwick assigned to K-12 public education. County, state and national laws, policies & regulations define requirements for meeting these needs.
Though school systems, schools and teachers can, and, in many cases, do, provide for more than that which is required, they are not always perfect in meeting the requirements, themselves.

When that is the case, it is within the rights of students and their families to request that the fulfillment gap be addressed. If they find resistance to a school's doing so, it is within their rights to escalate, either within the school system or without, to ensure that requirements are met.

If a need is not addressed by a requirement, it is within the rights of students and their families to advocate either for the need to be met by the school/school system independent of a requirement or for a new requirement to be created by one of the noted avenues for doing so.

Among these requirements are those for students with special needs.
One example would be a student who requires accommodation for visual impairment. There are a number of laws, policies and regulations at all three levels that address this.

Maryland state law requires schools to identify gifted needs among students and to meet those needs. MCPS policies and regulations mirror this. Not all families know this. Not all schools adhere to the spirit. The more that families become aware, and the more they exercise their rights to request/escalate/advocate, the better schools will become at addressing the need.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of eligible kids get in (and don't get in) via the G&T lottery? That sounds like a nightmare if you have a very high achieving kid and suddenly you lose your cohort when they get in and you don't.

One person's nightmare is another's equity-driven dream.

Truth

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Anonymous wrote:Wow you belong on dcum, such negativity “cram more down their throats” lol.

He needed help getting his curiosity satisfied, and so that’s what teachers and parents did. Am sure he’s headed for a full ride at Stanford at an early age. Good kid

At no point did the child show/express any unsatiated curiosity.
It's a teacher telling a mother (a year after the fact) that they should push the kid into MOAR!!!!!!!!!

And you know this, how, troll? Lol

Anonymous wrote:Wow you belong on dcum, such negativity “cram more down their throats” lol.

He needed help getting his curiosity satisfied, and so that’s what teachers and parents did. Am sure he’s headed for a full ride at Stanford at an early age. Good kid

At no point did the child show/express any unsatiated curiosity.
It's a teacher telling a mother (a year after the fact) that they should push the kid into MOAR!!!!!!!!!

Wow you belong on dcum, such negativity “cram more down their throats” lol.

He needed help getting his curiosity satisfied, and so that’s what teachers and parents did. Am sure he’s headed for a full ride at Stanford at an early age. Good kid