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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 2 of the 477. Happy to answer questions op. [/quote]

per day or week, how much specialized instruction does your student get as a SWD or GT student?

my DD is neither, so she gets whatever is left over, and with such a huge population of both, I worry that being in the middle means you get a lot of independent study time.[/quote]

My child is gifted and reads a lot independently at school.  When they were younger they regularly read several books a day.  [b]The gifted label doesn't seem to make a difference beyond clustering, which would happen anyway.  I guess if the label helps teachers cluster kids that is useful?[/b]  I feel for the teachers because whatever they are pushing it is NOT apparent to most parents I talk with.

Scrolling through the budget the low FRL numbers really jumped out at some of the schools.  
Jamestown (16), Tuckahoe (15), Nottingham (10), Discovery (22)
A handful of others have less than 100.  A lot have around 200, and then there are the schools where everyone gets lunch for free (Title I, I believe, though the budget lists it as CEP).  [/quote]

It is definitely useful to have the label because it guarantees clustering. If it weren't for the policy with grouping, most schools would equally spread out the highest kids so the rest of the class has "role models". This would not allow gifted kids to interact on a regular with their intellectual peers and they would often become "teachers helpers" and asked to help the lowest learners.[/quote]

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