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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The general concept of pooling to create peer groups in sufficient numbers as well as more efficiently providing resources like teachers with appropriate credentials isn’t a terrible one. The devil is in the details as usual. The move to local level IV as others have said has its own set of problems and for some-to-many students will lead to reduced opportunities/rigor if centers are phased out. Just my two cents.[/quote]

I really don't think that's true if they group the kids correctly...[/quote]

There's a reason no association for gifted kids is a fan of clustering. None. It doesn't work.[/quote]

It depends on how the clustering is handled.  Some of the LLIV programs do clustering where kids switch to an AAP classroom for math and language art blocks, but remain in clustered homerooms for everything else.  It's a way to deliver a lot of AAP level content to the kids without creating a strong AAP vs. not-AAP divide.  It also makes it easier for LIII kids to push into AAP in their areas of strength.    [/quote]

This is how schools were 20-30 years ago - differentiated learning has always been a thing. I remember in elementary school that we would switch classrooms for both reading and math to sit with our same level peers. We turned out just fine - I was not in the gifted program, but was probably always in the highest reading and math groups and I graduated 5th in my high school class of 500 kids having taken all Honors and AP classes throughout.[/quote]

Switching classes and grouping BY CLASS level for key subjects is the entire point. Without a LLIV structure that is set up for that clustering just means supposedly the teacher will teacher the AAP kids in her class different content than the rest of the kids are getting. I just don’t think that is realistic to think it will happen regularly, consistently and with quality. Kids need grouped at the classroom level for genuine differentiation to occur. [/quote]

Welcome to the experience of the kids with perfect sols in gen ed through 6th grade.  They are largely ignored, imagine if they were in a class where they could get some attention from the teacher![/quote]

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