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[quote=Anonymous]TAG pull-out honestly means "very few TAG services" because usually the schools have the school reading teacher / testing coordinator or librarian add on teaching TAG pull out to their regular duties and no one has time for that, especially because TAG kids are seen as being kids who will do OK no matter what, so they aren't high priority.   The pull out program is a separate curriculum which focuses on some problem solving group activities (kids, see if you can build a structure that will support an egg out of newspapers!) which is fine, but it isn't the same as having enriched math and language arts opportunities.

TRC is TAG in the regular Classroom and they want to have at least 7 TAG Identified kids to be placed in one classroom to form a little "cohort" so the kids can get a bit more attention.

TAG in a center program is better, but there are two types of center programs and all are available only through lottery to about 30% of the kids who apply.  for Elementary School, Glen Arden Woods and Heather Hills have ONLY TAG-identified students... so for instance there might be 5 TAG 2nd grade classes, 5 TAG 3rd grade classes, etc. in those schools.   As a result those schools can put their strongest math students in one class and offer more advanced math classes.   The other schools have just 1 TAG class (I think) per grade, and the other grades are comprehensive (neighborhood) kids.

The county uses all 4 types of TAG instruction (pull out, TRC, one class in a center and whole center school) but makes no attempt to match students' needs with type of program.   For example, TAG pull out is most useful for students who are moderately gifted while the center schools are most useful for the highly gifted, kids whose needs really can't be met in the neighborhood school.

(the 12-13 you noted, OP, refers to the 2012-2013 school year)[/quote]

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