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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who has a kid at JKLM doesn't really understand what most people are dealing with. I seriously doubt the differentiated learning includes a majority of kids who are several grades behind their peers.  You basically are the gifted class the rest of the parents want for their kids. [/quote]

That's what I was getting at in my PP about Ward 3 schools + Brent.  If the whole class (minus 2) kids at Janney can read 1.3 years ahead of (what IMO is a really unchallenging) "grade level," then that's where the teacher teaches -- and she send those 2 children for remedial help consistent with their IEP.

That doesn't mean the other 22 Janney second graders are "gifted."   It means the teacher is teaching toward the middle of her particular cohort, which is on the "S" level of reading instead of the "K" level which is supposedly "on grade level" for a 2nd grader nationwide.

True giftedness is something completely different, and DCPS has no framework for those kids.

MoCo does, starting in 4th.  Fairfax does with it's multi-leveled AAP program (the actually gifted kids are at the highest centers; the merely bright affluent kids as with Janney are at different place).  Don't know about Arlington or Alexandria.

love, a Janney parent[/quote]

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