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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really doesn’t matter. The “gifted services”  at APS are lip service. At Williamsburg, my kid’s teacher didn’t even know they were identified as gifted at parent teacher conferences when I asked about differentiation. It’s just in place to make striver Arlington parents feel better. I believe APS is mostly able meet the needs of children who are gifted in Math, but English is a joke.
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At least in elementary, math isn’t differentiated in any meaningful way, either. It’s a complete farce. The English curriculum actually looks like it could differentiate if someone attempted to do it.

I had no idea how terrible APS was for gifted education and I am so sad at our experience. [/quote]

+1 It is bad.  Early on, we were told to sit tight and wait for 3rd grade.  We never saw any differentiation at all in elementary.  They need to stop pretending there’s a “program.”[/quote]

No one pretends it is a program except parents. It has always been made clear at our ES that there is NOT a gifted program-- it is a "model" where there are services that are provided in the regular instructional program and students are cluster grouped with academic peers. This is true for all of APS, but it just might not have been communicated appropriately. [/quote]

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