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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in DCPS EOTP, reading 2 years ahead of grade level, and I have every confidence she is being challenged appropriately.

I really question the assumption that good differentiation is somehow impossible to achieve. I attended a Montessori school through 4th grade. In my Montessori junior class, we had kids from ages 6 through 9 in one classroom -- certainly as wide a range of abilities as you're likely to find in a single-grade classroom -- and the teachers managed to meet every kid at his or her level.

So I know it can be done, and in my experience DCPS can do it.[/quote]

I am in the same type of school and have a child doing the same type of thing wrt reading and math, albeit at a really young grade. We've observed good differentiation in the classroom, and expect that that's the path our DC will follow next year. It isn't pull out or separate site G&T, but what we've seen and what we expect is individual instruction from time to time that addresses the specific needs of our child (and a few others like our child).

I also concur with a PP's observation that some of us with "advanced" kids would be shocked to see that in a higher-achieving school our child would be average or above average and not exceptional. I don't know what reading/writing/doing math a few grade levels ahead means, but I expect that in a high SES suburban school there are MANY more kids doing this as opposed to the 2 or 3 in my child's class. [/quote]

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