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I am all for this. I do worry that if the regional programs are expanded more bright kids from our school will leave and that there will no longer be a group of strong peers to be role models for the rest of the kids like DC. [b]I wish they could figure out ways to bring more of the HGC type programming to neighborhood schools.[/b] I wouldn't want them to ability group classes but even one intellectually challenging pull out group a week would make a huge difference.[/quote]

They are doing that.[/quote]

How is this happening? Don't see any evidence at our school which is one of those where 80 or more percent are identified as gifted.[/quote]

Are they finally teaching to potential in the neighborhood schools or not?  Tracking?  Differentiation is back after being taken out for Common Core curriculum 2.0?
Many of us are not going to put our children in a 1 hour early morning and late afternoon bus ride to a HGC.[/quote]
I think they should just leave HGC alone to the top 2 to 3% the way it was and provide the differentiation at the home schools for the advanced but not gifted.

I am a PP who stated that they should provide similar curriculum/projects at the home school that they do in HGC.  Obviously, the caliber of the projects will be different, and thus, they shouldn't be necessarily held to the same standards as those in the HGC, but give them the opportunity to have more challenging work, and not just worksheets. Obviously, in the low income schools, this will be more challenging, but in those schools where there are a good number of higher achieving kids, make certain things like the science projects at the science fair mandatory.  The standards can be lower, but give them the chance to achieve more.[/quote]

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