Originally Posted by CFK
Originally Posted by Cricket2
In regard to the note that HG & PG kids need more than 1 yr of acceleration barring a 2e issue, maybe but maybe not and I wouldn't worry about that yet when crossing the first skip bridge. My dd is HG but not PG and we've gotten by with the combo of one grade skip, the bd that put her in as young for grade, subject acceleration post-skip, AP & honors courses, and choicing her to a very large high school (around 2,000 kids) so the odds of there being other gifted kids was better, and selecting a school that is very high performing with significantly higher expectations than our assigned school.

I disagree (about PG not needing more than one year acceleration). Being/needing much more advancement is (IMO) the true essence of being profoundly gifted, not getting a random 145 score on a test given on a single occasion (davidson's definition).

In cricket's example above, he/she has a child labelled as HG who required an early school start, a grade skip, subject accelerations and a high performing school in order to accommodate his/her child. A PG child should require even more.

I think there is more to it than simply saying a PG child needs radical acceleration. I also don't feel that being/needing much more advancement is *the* definition of PG. I see it as a characteristic shared by many PG children. But I don't see it as the only characteristic or a characteristic that is always present. It is an easily recognizable characteristic, so maybe that's why many of us in of it as a part-and-parcel of being PG. My ds doesn't show that sameness to accelerate in an obvious way, but he is an inward thinking personality by nature. We can *put* him8! Radically accelerated learning environments and he fits right in, but he doesn't run to us begging for it. However, he has amazing insight and problem-solving abilities that knock the socks off people when he shares his ideas and thoughts. His brain clearly thinks differently, and he prefers to learn in his own way. There's really no one way to define PG (jmo) -I do agree that there is more to it than just an arbitrary 99.9th percentile cut-off, but also don't think it's ossicle to quantify it as an obvious need for accelerated academics in the traditional sense either.

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