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[quote=Anonymous][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]

We don't mainstream kids at the extremely low (bottom 2%) of the spectrum. [b]Just like we shouldn't mainstream kids at the very top[/b]. Have you ever Been is a standalone special Ed classroom or center? Because you have not idea about what you are blathering on about. [/quote]

Not the PP, but everyone is well aware that the vast majority of kids in AAP [i]are not[/i] "at the very top".  That's just a ridiculous remark.  There are some kids who could benefit from a GT program.  Probably a tiny fraction of those currently in AAP.  The rest of those kids should absolutely be in "mainstream" classrooms.  [/quote]

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