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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should rely primarily on multiple teacher recommendations for admission to gifted programs at the middle and high school level, and there should be fewer seats overall. Most students being accepted to programs are simply academically advanced, due to early education benefits and often also intensive supplementing outside of school. Truly gifted students who pick things up quickly, think above and beyond and around everyone, and just have killer minds are few and far between. But really, they NEED a very different type of learning than they get now and would benefit from a true cohort.

As a middle school teacher I've dealt with 30-50 students per year applying to HS programs. Maybe 20 were really strong academically, 7 or 8 would be accepted, but only 1 or 2 were actually gifted.[/quote]

I think there needs to be a more challenging curriculum available to any student who benefits from it, gifted or not. My kid is not gifted but he gets his math concepts the first tie he hears them, yet he is to sit and wait for others to catch up. There are no gifted programs where we are and he needs to be truly gifted in order to say have instruction together with higher grade level kids. [/quote]

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