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[quote=Anonymous]So is it better to have more gifted kids or less?  Its kinda of opaque, as if they are truly gifted, more kids raises the level of study at the school -- if its just pushy parents asking for them to be gifted it is less helpful, but does serve as a proxy for parental involvement which has value as well.

Teachers spent the vast majority of their day focusing on the high need kids to make sure they succeed as SOLs, that's what the incentives are aligned for.  Identifying if a kid is gifted or not just doesn't benefit them in anyway, and in fact having more gifted kids in the class generates MORE work for the teacher since we use the pushin model (ie, a GT resource teacher comes by every week and says "here's the extra work for you to help the GT kids with on top of reading the high need kids for passing SOLs").

GT work does not threaten the schools accreditation unlike SOLs.

It's interesting that HBW has 400 gifted students out of a 700 student body.  WL is 800 out of 2400.  ATS is the highest I could find of the elementary, 200 out of 600 students.

Thoughts?[/quote]

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