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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also note that there are different levels of giftedness. A moderately gifted student is going to look much different that a highly gifted or profoundly gifted student. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be classified as gifted. Intelligence is a continuum, both at the lower, middle and upper ranges.[/quote]

In that case I think an argument here would be for reducing the AAP program to ptofoundly or highly and profoundly gifted students and work to beef up GE for everyone else. This area has a very high representation of gifted students so why not put more resources into serving everyone with accelerated or creative curricula. Why expand AAP to capture these kids rather than recognize the tremendous number of students who are bright (AAP & non) in a more efficient and effective way?[/quote]

Why would some AAP kids need to be pulled back into gen ed in order for the gen ed curriculum to be beefed up? Why can't it be beefed up now, with the kids who are currently there? Each gen ed class has a teacher. Why couldn't that teacher teach different material, if that would be desirable? Now, if you are saying that, with more kids at the higher end of the spectrum in each class, it would be easier to ignore the few at the lower end and go faster, I would disagree with that approach.

If anything now there is more differentiation built in, so each child has a better chance of being taught material targeted to his or her level. If you introduce more levels into each class, everyone loses. [/quote]

Of course GE could be beefed up now, but this could be the start of decreasing the AAP program to a smaller identified set of profoundly gifted students. Then the those identified up to that mark can still be in general education (with pull outs or differentiation as needed). This improves the experience for more children, IMO.[/quote]

Makes sense and is my opinion to![/quote]

+1[/quote]

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