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Three primary thoughts. <BR>
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A. I know nothing of Cobb schools. My daughter is trending towards completion of a PhD in Quantum Optics Physics at Georgia Tech, and my son is trending towards completion of an undergraduate coop degree in Computer Engineering. Both went through Gwinnett County schools. (Parkview) My son was captain of Academic Bowl team. The entire time I was aware of it, the two top schools in the state every year in academic bowl were Parkview (Gwinnett) and Brookwood (also Gwinnett). Both of my children advanced placed at least 20 hours of courses in high school that were accepted by Ga Tech, maybe more. <BR>
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B. Both my children were in the "Probe" classes from middle school through high school, and I recall that my son only took one class in the general prison population. (Spanish). There is a marked difference between the advanced curriculum offered in Gwinnett and the over drivel. That difference is that if a student screws up, mouths off, jacks off, etc, they get chucked out of the Probe sequence into the general classes where chaos reigns. My impression is that they experienced no "speed bump" between the level of work they were expected to deliver at Parkview and what they had to do at Ga Tech. We met and got to know most of the gifted teachers and thought they were excellent. Only one was a complete clown. <BR>
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C. As such, I would counsel a parent to consider if their child can hack the gifted program, and whether the gifted program will continue in their county of choice. Budget cuts may still be a comin'. <BR>
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On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 17:54 -0500, Wolf Halton wrote:<BR>
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Smyrna, specifically Campbell Hi, is where our daughter went, and they had a very good eating for academics as well as good arts and music programs (6 years ago, anyway).<BR>
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Wolf Halton<BR>
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On Dec 26, 2012 11:37 PM, "George Allen" <<A HREF="mailto:glallen01@gmail.com">glallen01@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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So my wife and I have been looking at houses here in Atlanta for a<BR>
while, and I thought I'd ask the list. If you want your kids to become<BR>
educated people, smart enough to run linux and grok math, science,<BR>
civics, etc. then what areas are best?<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
-George<BR>
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