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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It leaves my child, who is 2e (needs support in one area and significant advancement in another) - at a loss with respect to both subjects. APS cannot seem to get it right for either support or acceleration. The “challenge” math is what my kiddo did two years ago.

This is elementary. They refuse to budge or expand on the math. Why is it so anemic? It’s giving me so much panic. This child was previously so far ahead and now is bored and just…depressed. We moved here from out of state and I am aghast. How can they fail to differentiate at all? What was the point of the beginning of year tests? If we move again, this kid will be so behind. Are all APS schools so stubborn? Maybe we could transfer? If your elementary differentiates well, can you plug them? [/quote]

As someone with a kid in college and one about to enter, let me just advise you to stop stressing so much about GT in elementary school. At the margins, it doesn’t really do much except exist to assuage the egos and sooth the anxiety of parents who think their children are “advanced.”

The real differentiation won’t really happen until high school when they can plot a course. This GT stuff in elementary is pointless and it’s not worth wringing your hands over.[/quote]

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