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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ hmm, that doesn’t sound much like the GT program I experienced. I think we had pullout for 2 half days + 1 full day/week, and it saved my sanity in elementary school. We did do logic puzzles, but I still fondly remember other projects, like putting Jack from ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ on trial as a live action role play during a unit on law. (Jury deliberations were hilarious.) I want those kinds of deep dive project learning experiences for my kid. GT wasn’t so much acceleration in usual subjects where I went (that was handled with individualized instruction/self paced learning in class), but more creative and project based learning on other topics. We are new to VA, so not sure if this is comparable to what is available here?[/quote]

You had a more intensive than average GT program. I would say FCPS also has a better than average GT program (or technically advanced academic). At the highest level, identified kids go full-time to a center school with other identified kids from other ES for 5 days/wk instruction.  Math is accelerated so that kids complete typically complete the equivalent of 7th grade honors math by 6th grade, though further acceleration is possible.  The other subjects focus on greater depth, criticality and creativity rather than acceleration.  The actual practice varies by center and teacher--but we have found them to do interesting projects--like for social studies they created artifacts that reflected imaginary cultures they invented based on their earlier study of other ancient cultures. All the artifacts were buried and then other groups dug them up and had to interpret them from clues they contained about their religion, art, historical events etc. and then identify which of the cultures they were from (with a rationale why). There's a LOT more writing and analysis is the AAP program than the base FCPS program in our experience.
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