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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if needs are being met.  
I have two kids at Deal who have received all A's and 100% in many classes some quarters (as in they haven't missed a point on anything the entire quarter in math or ELA).  They have received 5's on all PARCCs they have taken since 3rd grade.  They're learning but they certainly aren't being challenged.  The school does test-in for math and so they're both up 2 years (Algebra 1 in 7th and on).  I'm not sure if they're G&T or not but they're certainly maxing out the Deal curriculum with very little effort and it was the same at our JKLM feeder school.  Deal has not offered they any other enrichment and I'd put them in the top 10% of their respective classes (about 10% of the kids perform at this level--in terms of grades, etc).

I have a neighbor whose kid is definitely gifted (the type of kid doing Algebra independently at home in 4th grade) and while Deal has allowed the kid to accelerate in math (Algebra in 6th, double math classes in 7th), they haven't done anything in other subjects.  However, the family is much happier at Deal than at the JKLM which did absolutely nothing for this kid despite quite a few meetings with the school.  Or should I say, they did a few "pull outs" for more advanced problem sets in math but nothing at all like a true gifted and talented program and certainly no different or expanded curriculum.   [/quote]

Thanks for your honesty.  Parents who think their kids are being challenged to their fullest potential in DCPS are kidding themselves.  Just like they are deluding themselves saying this and this is not widely known or not being touted but equivalent to G & T.  All subjective stuff.

I was in G & T in elementary and tracked at the highest level throughout school.  Tracking, grouping kids who are performing at the highest level, and teaching a very in depth and accelerated curriculum pushes them to perform better and reach their full potential.  Giving an individual child a harder assignment so they are being “challenged” will not have the same effect.  This applies to elementary and is even more important in middle and high school.

Unlike DC and Deal, neighboring states such as VA and MD, the middle schools offer multi-level courses for ALL subjects, all.  So do their high schools.  This is tracking.  This is how you group the best and brightest together, and this is how you are able to accelerate a curriculum and learning.  As the students rise up to the challenge, the teacher can easily modify it and raise the difficulty ceiling further.  You cannot do this when you don’t have all these students together and have varying levels of students in a class.

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