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Thanks so much for this thread- I had been wondering the same thing, because there are more and more kids getting into the gifted class, and I couldn't understand why if there is an uneven development in some gifted kids, surely there had to be at least one other kid in my son's class that was similar to him-but it seemed like my son was getting all the grief from his teacher. I had heard they dropped the IQ standard to allow for a more mixed group of students in the classes.. so I was wondering if it was possible that most of the kids in his class were really smart and bright, above average, but maybe not necessarily gifted, and was wondering what the difference would have been.