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[quote=Anonymous]Level ii means your child is meant to get extra enrichment in one or more core subject areas.

For math, this means getting pulled into the Level IV classroom for the accelerated math program. If your child is not yet old enough for accelerated math in that school (which starts in 3rd for some schools and now apparently in 5th for other schools), it's basically meaningless. No pullouts. Nada.

For all other subjects, it's similarly meaningless. Your child's classroom teacher is meant to give differentiated instruction that provides a higher level of challenge/rigor for the students in Level II for each subject. But we all know that in a classroom of 25 kids, differentiated instruction is a fairy tale.

Level III is about critical thinking, and generally means you get a once-a-week pullout into the Level IV classroom for some Socratic Seminar style learning.

Anecdotally, our 3rd grader was identified for level ii math, reading, and science this year after the level iv rejection (despite her high test scores, due to a really bad HOPE). Since accelerated math isn't offered until 5th grade in our school, this mean she got a few extra math worksheets and that was it for math.

However, her teacher really pushed writing on her for all other subjects, so instead of doing the little worksheets the rest of the class did, our kid wrote essays and graphic novels about the subject matter. She loved it, and I think it was best-case scenario for the options on the table this year. Her teacher also started sending her into the Level IV classroom everyday during their free-time. This was not related to Level III (that was a separate pullout that she was not offered). Just something her teacher had her do as she noticed that our girl needed more. And again, it was a good experience for our kid. And then I think a grand total of 2 times, the AART teacher pulled her out with a small group for some advanced math. I'm not sure those two isolated pullouts were all that impactful, but she had fun, I guess?

So what I'm telling you is that Level II is entirely dependent on the teacher you are assigned. Some of them are going to do nothing, and some will do what they can (while they are also trying to learn to teach a brand new curriculum to a classroom of 25 kids some of whom have much higher needs than your child). 
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