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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For what it is worth, my understanding is that even those local centers that currently have two classes per grade could drop back to one depending on the year. Ostensibly, it is dependent on the strength of the year. [/quote]

I don’t think that’s true. How on earth would they handle that from a staffing point of view?[/quote]

The same way they handle it when one grade level has a lot more kids than another -- they shift teachers around. I've seen it at our school. My daughter's grade level has 5 classes and the one below and above her has 4.  So there is shifting each year.[/quote]

It doesn't work that way with CES teachers.    [/quote]

Unless something has changed, CES teachers are not specially trained.  When my child was at a HGC...a neighborhood class teacher moved to a HGC class while my DD's HGC teacher moved to a neighborhood class.  There is no special credential.[/quote]

Was it a local center or regional?[/quote]

Regional..there were no local centers then.  I would think the local centers are much less likely to have special teachers since they are so much less selective.[/quote]

It is possible that that neighborhood class teacher had had GT education training in the past - just saying... - but yes, I will not be surprised if that was not the case.

So you think all these new centers they have opened have specially trained teacher in each classroom?  Because they are in the top 1/3 of the school population??
The only datapoint I have is one regional center, where for many years now ELA and social studies have always been handled by trained teachers.[/quote][/quote]

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