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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone actually read the story? It's one program at one school. And consider the source, would you? The Washington Times is always on the lookout for liberal conspiracies.

It is actually possible to meet the needs of students of different achievement levels in one classroom--especially in the early grades. A gifted kindergarten program is about preparation, not "giftedness." [/quote]

While I don't really believe that it's possible to meet the needs of all student levels in one classroom if you're talking about really gifted kids, I agree that K is WAY to early to be making those kinds of determinations.[/quote]

Except these programs aren't about "really gifted kids"--if you mean the profoundly gifted ones. They're about the top 5-10%. When I was in a gifted program growing up, 95% of the kids were really smart, but only a couple were profoundly gifted (not me). We tested in based on percentiles; the profoundly gifted are a fraction of the top percentile, and they are so rare that general population schools could never field a whole class of them.[/quote]

District-wide, if those students were all in the system, it could be done.  With a population the size of DC, you could probably have several entire schools for "gifted" based on top 5-10% and entire classrooms for "profoundly gifted" but it would surely meet resistance from people who want to insist that all children are equal.[/quote]

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