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[quote=Anonymous]"It seems like the forum has a few people wanting to hang on to the belief of above grade in reading and math means gifted. "

I totally agree that truly gifted kids are very few and far between and are kids who are just head and shoulders above their peers - even in a "good" school zone like in CC or Bethesda.  I think many parents concerned about these GT labels are not deluded to think their DC is a budding Einstein or a one in a million genius (well, some do I guess, but not all).  But the problem is that if you live in parts of the eastern side of the county, the vast majority of the school population is not even at grade level.  So a kid who is even just above average needs appropriate teaching too - teaching that doesn't seem likely to happen if most of her class/school is at a lower learning level.  Now if they would simply group those above grade level kids together so they could proceed at their own pace, that would satisfy me - whatever you want to call that.  But that doesn't sound like what is happening - and in fact it seems like STar wants to push further in the direction of believing that it doesn't matter how wide the learning spreads are in a room, teachers can adequately juggle them.  My mom was a teacher but frnkly that seems like a very tall order when a large part of the class starts school not even knowing English very well and/or not knowing some of the fundamentals taught to most middle class kids in preschool or at home before they even get to kindergarden.[/quote]

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