Commenter:
Cynthia Coleman, parent of GT student at Forest Edge Elementary
Support revision and addressing high school GT needs
This is our daughter's first year in GT and we are very pleased with the program at her 3rd grade level. However, I do not see this level of effort to address GT students needs at the middle school and high school level. The middle school centers for GT education appear more scattered and seem to create long bus rides for the children. The county might want to consider increasing the number of GT centers in its middle schools. The county does not seem to have any high school level GT programs. (Thomas Jefferson appears to only address the needs of those scientifically inclined exceptional students and is a state magnate school, not a county one.) I would encourage the county to look carefully at the needs of students at all years K-12 and not just focus so heavily on elementary needs. With the same breath, I praise the current program and all it is doing for our child in 3rd grade.