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      <![CDATA[You all are missing the point. TCP recommended two things that are contradictory.<br>
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      <![CDATA[@ David<br>
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That is exactly what I have been preaching about for over a year. The critical thinking skills are the ones that are needed the most in elementary and high schools.
        
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      <![CDATA[The most important things these programs do is identify -- at an early age -- children who show a proclivity for solving simple problems quickly and looking at complex problems in advanced ways. In order to be successful, a program for these children must seize on that innate capability and nurture it--fueling it with increasingly complex challenges and higher expectations.<br>
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These childhood abilities are the seeds of the innovation, scientific discovery and entrepreneurship that will solve our world's greatest challenges, cure its diseases and drive its economy through this century and into the next.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[CL Mullins]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If they are truly gifted, then they should need no help.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was in CLUE in MCS and enjoyed every second of it. The greatest gift of CLUE to me was the focus on critical thinking, problem solving, etc.  Which to me, were far more beneficial than all the standard classes you are forced to take combined.
        
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      <![CDATA[I was also tested quite early and singled out, but where I went to school there were no programs for gifted students, so all the testing did was give my parents a reason to demand straight A's. I have no idea why they even bothered testing me. It wasn't until I reached high school that I was placed in advanced programs that challenged me -- to do one extra essay per semester.
        
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      <![CDATA[Optional and IB programs are great, but they only serve a certain level of student well.<br>
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That's my issue. What if my child is on the fence between optional/IB and regular course work?
        
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      <![CDATA[As a kid, I participated in a program called GATE (Gifted and Academically Talented Education) and I credit it with keeping me interested in school (I already new everything the regular classes taught). Now, both my kids are in CLUE, and I believe it does the same for them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Grove<br>
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I heartedly disagree with you. You are trying to, perhaps unknowingly, use scare tactics zeroing in on the pitfalls of the merger.<br>
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I have it from a good source that the optional programs and IB programs will not be cut, but expanded.
        
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      <![CDATA[APEX used to be available at the Kindergarten or 1st grade level in SCS. I know because I participated from Kindergarten through 6th grade at an SCS school.
        
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      <![CDATA[My intelligence is a few standard deviations below average.
        
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