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Unfortunately, there's not enough personnel to support small groups for all students with any type of regularity. Class sizes are in the upper 20s in a lot of cases with one full time teacher. In Virginia, gifted is not classified as special education. In APS, the large number of identified gifted students would make it next to impossible to ever consider reverting back to a pull out model. We have 1 special education teacher per grade level in our APS ES, but t[b]here's always been 1 RTG/AA Coach[/b]. [/quote]

yeah and wait until your kid gets to high school where there's at least 35 sped teachers for 150 students and still 1 RTG/AACoach for 900+ students.[/quote]

There is no gifted in high school.

Just AP/IB grind. [/quote]

If it is not required by Virginia law, why does Fairfax invest so much in gifted program?  
What states do you have adequate resources mandated by law for gifted?[/quote]

Virginia does require by law that school districts to identify and and provide services. APS Advanced Academics model complies with all state requirements and regulations, whether or not you like the model or not. [/quote]

Different districts do things differently. FFX model isn't perfect either. It sets up so much stress and focus on qualifying for AAP. Kids just below the threshold are out of luck.

But if you like it better, you can move to FFX! [/quote]

We actually are moving in a year, but our DC time at Taylor was good enough so had no problem with KM but doubt GT will see much change. [/quote]

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