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So essentially more tracking, but we're calling it clustering now. Ok then! Works for me![/quote]

GT kids have always been clustered supposedly in groups of 5-8, similar to SN or ESL children.  That way they are supposed to have peers in their classes.  The challenge that many parents of identified GT kids have seen, and even more so since the pandemic, is that if you've only got 5 kids at an advanced level the teacher really has to focus his or her attention on those below grade level.  The attitude that "they'll be fine" means the needs of GT kids in a classroom aren't met.

Duran is more open to the idea that all kids deserve a year's worth of growth during a school year.  Middle school has a single option for intensification, and that's math.  The plan he's rolling out would include ways to do outreach to groups that might not automatically enroll their child in intensified classes.  Intensified classes are voluntary, any family could select for their child regardless if they are identified as GT.

There's also a push to make those clusters bigger in gen ed classrooms.  Teachers are right now expected to teach and appropriately differentiate in classrooms that might have kids with knowledge and ability spread across three grade levels.  That's impossible - teachers are stressed and kids lose out.  [/quote]

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