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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS no longer supports or invests in gifted education.  The provide "resources" teachers can use to differentiate, but teachers are too overwhelmed and tired to differentiate -- and the schools get no more funding for accelerated students.  They get funding based on how many meet the benchmark.  They are concerned about the lower half, not the upper half.  We are done with APS -- long time public school supporters -- but this has become ridiculous.  [/quote]

In your opinion, what would be the ideal school environment for gifted learners in APS? Would you be happier if APS reverted back to pull out groups one time a week for 30 minutes, like they did over 10 years ago? Just curious.[/quote]

[b]Yes, that would be one option; another would be to segment classes by levels, so that in larger schools, there could be classes designated for more advanced students. [/b] Current state is nothing at all.  Equity doesn't mean bringing everyone down; it means bringing everyone up.[/quote]

PP this borders on tracking which is considered racist and essentially boxes kids out from a young age.  They're now supposed to be clustering kids identified as GT into groups of no smaller than 10 kids, so that in a given classroom the teacher should have a smaller spectrum across which to differentiate, and enough of an advanced cohort to need that instruction.

A pre-test model could work as well.  The key is that then instruction has to actually happen.  Not more iPad time or choice activities.  Actual real live instruction by a teacher just as the kids who are below standard get.  This is part of the failure of APS, high achieving kids are left to their own devices in most cases. [/quote]

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