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My child's IEP does not address academics.  DS has no academic issues and excels academically.  His IEP addresses those aspects of his disability that can have an academic impact;  In our DS's case, social/communication issues.  As everyone has told you, an IEP is about putting in a floor so kids with disabilities can "access the curriculum" - the existing curriculum that everyone else gets.

As pp said, why don't you send your gifted kid to Basis...  or start your own school.[/quote]

Well done -- that's the way to take potshots at your own troops!  I was actually in agreement, you know? I just like to give people a chance to voice their opinions, so that a good idea doesn't get buried under a bunch of flak.

That particular child does attend BASIS already.  Never, ever, ever claimed that IEPs were bad things, nor that we wanted one or needed one.  They are needed for some kids.  As an avenue for serving G&T, not so much.  Very inappropriate IMHO.

As for BASIS serving the G&T community, it really doesn't.  It's just the best option available right now.  Acceleration is not as good as depth, and while BASIS provides some good avenues for depth, they still force acceleration on kids.  It gets them to nice AP statistics faster, which helps their business model.  I don't ascribe to the "it's a race" model of education.

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