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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support this

I also support scrapping the whole AAP insanity.  No one has any clue who is gifted vs just smart when kids are 6-7 years old anyway

Just go back to tracking and multiple levels.  I remember growing up you would separate the classrooms in each grade for math for high average and remedial.  That would also cut down on the insanity of kids taking Algebra I in 6th grade.  No one should be doing that.  7th grade is plenty early and you could have at least one section at each middle school.  Those classes would form your TJ pipeline and go from there.

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Why do these two things have to be mutually exclusive?  Gifted kids need to be with other gifted kids for a number of social and intellectual reasons.  The idea that some form of blended classrooms are good for everyone equally is a fallacy and only serves to engender the problem of the smarter kids being overlooked/ignored in favor of helping less intelligent or struggling students.  The worst thing a teacher can do to an immature, intellectually curious, gifted child is to tell her that her knowledge is good enough to pass already so all she has to do is sit in the corner and twiddle her fingers while less fortunate, more important kids are taught things they should already know.  This is why the U.S. is losing in education vs. the rest of the world.[/quote]

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