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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a 7th grader at Luther Jackson taking Pre Calc this year.  It’s not common, but FCPS accelerates kids more than you might imagine. [/quote]

It’s hard to imagine. So are parents making the school give their 8yo the Iowa and SOL? And then the 9yo is getting high school credit? Is the 7th grader going to high school for pre calc?  Hopefully it’s not online. It just seems really logistically complicated and not something a school would want to deal with. And these are kids who are definitely receiving outside enrichment. Which do that by all means if you want. But I wouldn’t expect a school to try too hard to then accommodate that. [/quote]

In your opinion, what should FCPS do with kids who are exceptionally gifted?  Should they just shrug their shoulders and decide not to educate them?  Should they expect kids like that to just be private or homeschooled?  Don't all kids deserve to be taught at a level appropriate for their intellect and level of achievement?  In a school system as large as FCPS, it should be expected that there will be a handful of kids each grade level who are far beyond their same age AAP peers.

Also, you have the sequencing wrong for whether kids like that are receiving outside enrichment.  They aren't far ahead because they're receiving outside enrichment.  They're receiving outside enrichment because they were already so far ahead that neither the parents nor the school knew what to do with them.  [/quote]

I’m the PP quoted. [b]There should be an understanding that there are limits to how much a public school should individualize education for kids who are “ahead”.[/b] A kid put into algebra I in 3rd grade is not simply exceptionally gifted, but also exceptionally tutored. And likely more tutored than gifted. The argument that they are deserving of FAPE is absurd. They are obviously receiving more than enough instruction.

An FSIQ above 145 which is roughly 1/1000 kids, is a smart kid, but I promise you they are not intuitively factoring in 2nd grade. Of course we can tutor many kids that age to do so. But it is not FCPS responsibility to push every single kid as hard as they can tolerate. I think schools need to push back on pushy parents. Like someone said a kid who is ready for high school in 3rd grade is your outlier who probably does need radical acceleration, private, or homeschool. Does that answer your question?
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FCPS certainly has some small handful of kids who are 99.99th percentile.  If it isn't too cumbersome to the school, at least some efforts should be made to accelerate kids like that when appropriate.

I'm curious about how would you handle a kid like mine:  Hit the ceiling in WISC Fluid Reasoning index with 19 in all subtests and a FRI at the max score of 155 (extended norms were not available at the time), but only a 124 in the Verbal index.  The Principal and Math resource teacher wanted to skip him ahead multiple grades in math, starting in early 1st grade, but the admins at Gatehouse wouldn't allow a multiple grade math skip.  Wholesale radical acceleration wouldn't be appropriate since he's not gifted in language arts and not abnormally mature.  I would have been happy with any of an appropriate grade skip in math, permission to ignore the school math lessons and do AoPS during ES math class, or permission to take any outside math course at an appropriate level while using the school math slot as a study hall.  FCPS was not willing to allow any of these.

For my kid, the answer was homeschooling.  It's unfortunate, though, when the local public school system is too rigid to even try to meet the needs of the highly gifted kids.  [/quote]

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