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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a shame that the options aren't there - considering DCPS spends far more per student than any other district in the nation, to include districts that ARE able to provide viable options for G&T students.  There's really no excuse for it.  Lack of resources or diversion of resources certainly isn't an acceptable excuse.[/quote]

It sounds to me that DCPS IS doing it....but that people aren't fully aware of it. Maybe because what they're doing is fairly new or not fully spread out to enough schools to be considered a critical mass. But to say that they're not doing anything isn't true. There was just a thread on here about how they had these advanced reading groups at 40 something elementary schools...Junior Books or something like that. And the people on here are already talking about SEM. And of course the paper just had how DCPS was pushing Advanced Placement classes. [/quote]

Ok, to be fair, they are doing [i]something[/i].

Junior Great Books is the kind of thing every school should have for every child, not just the GT ones.  So, that's not really a program -- it's more like a mission critical resource.

AP is also taught at most high schools, but it doesn't reach kids until high school at the earliest, and not until the junior year for most courses.  It does offer an accelerated track, but only at the very end of the game.  Again, not at all a GT program, but rather, something that should be considered mission critical for anyone.

For GT, pretty much only SEM exists, and it is a partial implementation of it.  A pull-out program addresses high achievers (top 15% or so), but doesn't do much for the top 5%, or for the kids who are so bored that they aren't paying attention in class at all.  For SEM to be successful, it needs to approximate the objectives of an IEP (sore topic, I know) -- that is, it needs to be individualized to provide appropriate depth throughout the school week, and not just for a couple of hours on one day.

Hopefully, they will get the kinks out of the SEM program.  I'm not ready to throw the program out.  I just don't see how it remotely approaches sufficiency at this point.
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