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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Simple solution: get rid of centers.  Period.  If you can accommodate those at the lower end of the spectrum and those with LD in an "average" classroom, you can certainly accommodate the highly intelligent.

FWIW, I've known at least two families who had kids with rather serious special needs.  They fought to keep those kids in mainstream classes--meanwhile, they were sending their other kids to the GT centers--this was before the GT centers took the "twice exceptional".  I couldn't believe the irony of these families--except, the special needs kids had issues that I knew I would have fought had mine had those same issues.  However, I still couldn't get over the irony that they expected their 'low" kids to be in my kids' classroom-while their other kids were in the GT center.

If we are  going to mainstream the special needs kids at the low end, then we must mainstream those at the upper end.

Bottom line: no need for the centers.[/quote]

Absolutely agree.  It's the height of hypocrisy when parents of AAP kids insist that their kids be educated separately, yet they see no problem with the LD or special needs (low end of the spectrum) kids being mainstreamed with the Gen Ed classes.  So it's ok for the Gen Ed classes to be pulled down, but no way would it be ok for their AAP kids to be "dragged down" with the masses.  Complete double standard.  Centers need to go and FCPS should have woken up to that fact several years ago.[/quote]

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