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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In an egalitarian system one gives everyone access to knowledge and the means of gaining such--no mumbo jumbo.  Then let the Bell shape curve fall where it may if you decide to test them.  A very simple solution.  One that Peyton and Phelps (or any high performing musician or artist) understands well.  All this nonsense about giftedness, measuring "raw" intelligence, IQ, measuring "something" is simply --- pure nonsense.[/quote]

[b]Then no need for a "gifted" program or AAP,[/b] which was only allowed to serve special needs of the truly gifted.

Putting everyone back in their base schools and letting the teachers decide at which level they should be taught is the best way to handle things anyway.[/quote]

pretty sure there is. State law and all that.[/quote]

They have to have a gifted program. It's state law. 
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/instruction/gifted_ed/gifted_regulations.pdf
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I see what you mean.  Slightly different language than when my son went through grade school.  If you include in gifted all kids performing above grade level, that can be any smart kid whose exposed to advanced material at an early age.  [b]What a joke and perpetuation of a winner-take-all society.   Will be interesting to see how the widening education gap comes back to haunt us as a society.  [/b]Maybe these brainy kids put on their special track will be able to come up with a solution.  No wait, they won't, because they've been in their little bubble and won't be able to understand their differently educated peers.[/quote]

Yeah, what's scary about the widening gap in education is that those on the high end become too smart, and we need to discourage that.  :roll:

It's that those at the bottom slipping further and further behind that should worry you. So, everyone would benefit from differentiated teaching -- kids with similar needs being grouped together so that teachers can focus on addressing those needs, not a one size fits all classroom where no one is getting what they need.[/quote]

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