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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids in our East County school have done this. There have been kids from lower grades in my daughter’s 4/5 and 5/6 math classes. 2 kids in her grade go to the media center and take higher math online.[/quote]

Ditto my child's former East County school. Honestly, the kids who did this were genuinely the off-the-charts gifted kids, not just the well-prepared ones. This seems like the right approach to me - save the dramatic acceleration for the sliver of kids who need it, and everyone else is perfectly fine to take AP Calculus in Junior year, which is still ahead of the national norm. [/quote]

That would be fine if they were absolutely open and communicative about the standards (i.e., down to cut scores, detailed adjustments and de-identified results of prior appeals), did a better job of identification, employing more ability-realated metrics, ensured communication met the purpose of broad awareness & understanding across communities, and ensured equal access to advanced programming no matter the zip code/cohort.

Oh, and continued to ensure reasonable and equitably-accessible enrichments (and associated identification) for those high-but-not-ultra-high fliers to meet those kids where they are, too.  All of this, of course, would require...(clap, clap)...more funding.[/quote]

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