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[quote=Anonymous]HGC centers have kids with IEPs.  It is against the law to discriminate against kids with disabilities.  In the old days (not so long ago) kids where explicitly forced to choose -- if you wanted into the gifted program you had to give up your IEP/supports.  That is no longer true.  Kids with IEPs and 504 plans must be admitted to programs on the same basis as non-disabled kids.  When taking any entrance exams or completing any portion of the application, they are entitled to receive all accommodations on their IEP or 504 plan.  Kids who are in HGCs but also have IEPs will get "special instruction" per their IEP in the HGC.  This means that their IEP calls for them to be in "general education" with "special instruction" provided, usually as push-in or a limited number of pull-out hours.

Kids who are in GT/LD programs are placed their by their IEP team.  GT/LD programs can be either full-time special ed or it can be a general education program that is "team-taught" by a general ed and special ed teacher or has a mixture of general ed and special ed classes.  In MCPS it is my understanding that the elementary GT/LD program at Lucy Barnsley is more of a full-time special ed model as the kids are with the GT/LD teachers for most academic instruction (at least it was this way several years ago, haven't looked at it recently).  The middle school GT/LD model is more the latter combination of general and special ed. Some classes are team taught, and GT/LD kids may have a special support period that is just special ed. 
 
For the PP who is discussing behavior issues in the classroom -- conflating behavior issues with a learning disability or ADHD is simply wrong.  There are many reasons why a kid might misbehave in a classroom, but the exact why is none of your business.  If your DC is expressing that she is scared or has been directly threatened, then maybe you should bring it up with the teacher, but otherwise kids just need to know that kids and adults misbehave for a lot of reasons and it's not our job to figure out why someone else is misbehaving.  It's just our job to focus on making sure our own behavior is correct, and not worry about what others are doing unless we feel directly threatened.

BTW, as I said above, it is against the law to discriminate against kids with disabilities.  So, in your HGC there may be kids with learning disabilities, health disabilities, emotional disabilities, etc.  Federal educational and privacy law prevents the school from disclosing any of this private information in a way that is individually identifiable.  So while you may speculate about a particular child, the school is legally prevented from disclosing to you any information about disabilities.   The law says you have no right to know whether a child has a disability. [/quote]

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