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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe how many people are actually responding to this obvious troll post. [/quote]

Teacher here. Unfortunately, I don’t think this is a troll. I’ve met parents like this. They have no idea (or they don’t care) how much they insult other children.

I’ll also say that my Gen Ed students are often the most receptive and show the most genuine excitement about learning. Often many are just as bright as their gifted peers, but simply didn’t have the parent pushing them into special programs and tutoring.

I wouldn’t remove my own children from this inclusive classroom. Sometimes lessons don’t come out of books.[/quote]
It's truly sad to hear such anti-education attitudes from teachers employed in public service.  As a parent of a gifted child, I always think of how I would be treated if I had a disabled child that would receive public services. If you disregard the special needs of gifted children, it scares me to think how you would disregard the needs of those children.

We have laws in VA, and one such laws governs the education of the gifted and talented.  As a teacher, you are expected to follow the law.

It is bad enough that education was watered by removing special tracks, grade skipping and other methods that the literature you should have become familiar with during your training shows are provably beneficial for gifted children. Now it's "clusters" - and even then this watered down idea is misapplied when all classrooms contain gifted children (that's not a cluster, it's random distribution) and when the performance range within a classroom is not bounded.

Your role as a public servant should be to serve all children, and every one of these children has different needs and methods that best serve them. For gifted children proximity to peers (and where possible, to older children and competent adults) are crucial elements in their development, just like children with autism or developmental disorders have their own needs.
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DP.  Very few kids in AAP are academically gifted with needs that can't be met in a regular classroom.  Most of the kids in AAP are above average, but nothing more than that.

Also, VA laws merely require some sort of program for gifted kids, but they neglect to specify exactly what that program must entail and which kids are even considered gifted.  Technically, once per week pull out services for gifted kids are legally permissible.

Kids who are actually gifted and not "FCPS gifted" have educational needs that aren't being met in AAP centers either.  It's not surprising to see some degree of cynicism from teachers about the entire process when there's such a huge overlap between the top gen ed kids and the bottom 2/3 of the AAP kids.  If you were a teacher and witnessed that even in AAP, only a small handful of kids per classroom are gifted, while the rest are above average privileged kids with parents who grossly over-estimate their abilities, you'd probably also be in favor of a cluster model that at least stops the insanity and unfounded elitism.[/quote]

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