To be honest, I am kind of amazed by the range of abilities in DD's magnet school--and these are all kids who test 99th%+. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but if I didn't know that those were the requirements I would think we were looking at a class of 90th%+. I know there are LDs in the class and there certainly ARE some kids who are way out there, beyond DD (which would make sense, as she scored MG!) So anyway, since we have kids who are working hard to handle the curriculum, which is generally 1-2 years ahead, and this is a 99th% group...I can see a real issue for HG kids if other places are more watered down.
Yes, and while I fully believe that our town skews "high" in terms of ability in offspring...
when you're identifying
30% of your middle school population as "Talented and Gifted" then unless this is a school housed in a remote National Laboratory or something... or maybe a preschool which caters to the faculty of an Ivy...
there is clearly no way that all of those kids are even 99th percentile.
I've also been (crisply) informed by local organizers that there is "no difference" between kids like my DD (99.9th) and her peers who are more like barely squeaking over the 90th percentile.
Yeah-right. Not unless there are 2E issues at work.
