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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle School is the worst of all the levels for GT support.  Other than math APS has consistenly refused to offer intensified classes for English, Science or Social Studies so it's up to each teacher to scaffold the curriculum or not.

Don't bother with referral in K.  PPs pointed out, if your child truly is potentially gifted the teacher will have seen that.  [/quote]

It was political at our elementary.  Several teachers recommended my kid early—but those donating large sums of $ and constantly @ss-kissing weee picked my the Principal.  It means nothing in the long game anyways.  Most of those kids had behavior problems and were disruptive.  The “oh he acts out because he is so bored BS”.  Ah, no.[/quote]
This is exactly how it is in my elementary school as well.  My fifth grade daughter has been given extension activities since for math since first grade, and they do differentiate starting in fourth for most schools.  Being designated gifted doesn't do anything as far as I can tell -- my daughter is not identified (though she was supposed to be formally identified last year but then covid halted the process) and it hasn't affected her math classes, all the other kids in her class are the same every year for math, and roughly 3/4th of them are designated gifted.  My third grade son is identified as gifted, and he has had roughly the same experience with her.  According to my daughter's teacher, they don't use gifted differentiation beyond elementary school for determining math placement -- its more based on how you did the previous year and what your math inventory score is.  So I am not sure it would be worth going through the process in K.  [/quote]

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