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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have any experience with the advanced and/or gifted program at Taylor? My child will be in kindergarten there in the fall. Her preschool director and classroom teacher have asked me to look into skipping ahead to 1st grade because her math and reading skills are so strong in pre-k. They both think she's socially and academically in a good place to do so. 
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My son is a fifth-grader in APS (not Taylor) and he was identified by his kindergarten teacher within the first few weeks of the year and he started getting some pull-out services right away. All kids entering APS go through a variety of teacher-administered assessments at the beginning of the year so they will figure out pretty quickly if your kid is far enough ahead of the rest of the class that there is a need for differentiation. In addition to pull-out, gifted resource teachers in Arlington do "push-in" if there is a group of kids in a single class who are advanced in a given area, and provide supplemental materials for classroom teachers so that they can give more challenging work to kids who are ahead of the rest of the class. There is also a summer program for gifted kids that starts after K.

I don't think APS skips kids--my son would be a candidate if anyone ever was, but they have never said a word to us about it, and I don't know any kids who have skipped, even those that went on to TJ. Maybe they do in a few rare cases, but there are so many advanced kids in the system that it seems like they just provide differentiation and keep kids in their original grades.[/quote]

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