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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well then, we're almost in agreement.  The whole idea of IEPs for gifted kids is offensive (to parents of kids with disabilities) and not allowed and illegal under IDEA not just inappropriate or a bad idea.

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It seems that where our disagreement lies is that G&T kids deserve attention.  The disagreement is that you think of those kids as over-coddled "snowflakes," where I think of them as our under-served future.  THIS is the point the very original poster was getting at -- how do we reach these kids (with IDEA being raised as one possible means to an end)?

Nobody on here is still arguing for an IEP as the answer, as far as I can tell.  They are arguing that G&T kids need attention, and aren't getting it.  Other posters keep circling back to legal reasons why IDEA doesn't support G&T, so G&T parents are SOL.  This is really a thinly veiled argument that G&T kids don't deserve anything at all.

On that point, I disagree strongly.  For those kids that receive nothing but daycare from DCPS, I believe they do deserve better.  These kids are not "snowflakes" -- they are ignored, forgotten, and mistreated.

My children are cared for.  I don't argue on their behalf.  I argue for the uncounted kids who are not being cared for.  They need to be reached, and yet we do nothing but block progress.

So, for the ignorant masses that choose to stick to resistance at all costs, I will open a new thread, that starts from this point.  What can be done for these kids?[/quote]

No one is saying gifted kids don't deserve attention... But this thread with using IDEA to get the attention will not work, is a stupid idea b/c it won't work, waste of time b/c it won't work,..offend parents of disabled kids (who would support "more attention for gifted kids"), etc.[/quote]

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