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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile, 2Ts don't have the same infrastructure to support a highly gifted child - they tend to focus on enrichment rather than acceleration, especially in the early years.[/quote]

This is highly school-dependent - I went to a school that would barely qualify as a 3T by NYC standards and they had an excellent accelerated program. There are definitely schools that refuse to differentiate as a matter of educational philosophy, but there are other schools that will be more than happy to; they certainly all have enough resources for it. (in some cases it's as simple as 'how is your schedule constructed' - they might for example be delighted to skip your kid a grade in math if the blocks line up cleanly enough that your kid would be able to keep doing it throughout their school career)[/quote]

Would love to know which schools would do this?[/quote]

My suburban NJ public did this - usually a few kids a year. And this was in the late 80s. In 6th grade a few kids got bumped to 7th grade math. In 8th grade they went to the HS for first period then bussed back to middle school - HS started earlier so the timing worked. Most took BC in 11th grade. This was long before it was trendy to accelerate kids and there weren’t enough to create a whole class.[/quote]
Thanks. I was specifically asking about the 2T/3T schools that do this in elementary, as the PP mentioned above.[/quote]

Sorry, I'm the PP and I was referencing the non-NYC private school I went to. I never looked at NYC private elementary schools for my kids and so haven't investigated this in those grades here; I can say that most of the middle schools I talked to indicated an openness to it if the kid was advanced enough, and allowed as how they had other kids doing it from time to time, so it seems pretty widespread. I would advise you to contact the admissions offices of any schools you're interested in to get a current read on that for elementary school.[/quote]

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