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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I am not sure where you are getting your info. My DD is currently in a GT classroom at a LLIV school. I have plenty of issues with the program at her school, but your description is most definitely NOT at all reflective of what she is getting at school. She has a full time, self-contained GT classroom. At our school the class is made up of about 90% kids who were center eligible but chose to stay at the base school LLIV. Her teacher is GT certified (and not all GT center teachers are). They share the same curriculum as most GT Centers (the curriculum varies even among GT centers). Her math is compacted and our base school offers compacted math to gen ed students as well as the LLIV class. Many schools do this.

The big area where I have concerns about our LLIV is the peer group. While most of the class is GT center eligible, the mix of kids [i]at our school and in her grade[/i] is very much high achievers with not really any quirky kids. Some LLIV programs are very large (for example, Spring Hill) and offer multiple classrooms per grade. Our program is not that large so there is only one teacher per grade and one classroom of kids that stays together for grades 3-6. I am moving her to our GT Center next year largely to increase the population of kids and expanded teacher choice. However, our GT Center is not considered that strong and I do have reservations about it.

So all of that is to say that I think it is very important for a parent to know their kid and to know what the LLIV programs and GT Center programs are like. They are NOT all the same.[/quote]

ITA with this entire post.

Local Level IV services follow the same intended curriculum as the Centers.  The biggest difference is the peer group.  Some schools have one Local Level IV class [b]per grade[/b] and the number of Center-eligible students is very few.

Sure, the academics of the majority of the "fill in" students may be approaching a similar level of the Center-eligible kids, but in many cases they are not (wonderfully) quirky like many Center-eligible kids.  The social issues are also important and not just what level math they are working on.[/quote]

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