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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 2 of the 477. Happy to answer questions op. [/quote]

per day or week, how much specialized instruction does your student get as a SWD or GT student?

my DD is neither, so she gets whatever is left over, and with such a huge population of both, I worry that being in the middle means you get a lot of independent study time.[/quote]
Huh?  That's not how it works.  With the changes this year, APS isn't offering any services to gifted students that it isn't offering to all students.   The Advanced Academic Coaches are now working with classroom teachers to do whole class enrichment.  They do not do anything specific for the tagged students.

In reality this means that average students are engaged in appropriate learning, while students who are gifted likely have a ton of downtime after they finish their work with nothing more to do.  My elementary school student has been reading several hundred pages of her book each day at school for most of the year.  She finished one SOL this week and then read for 3.5 hours while everyone else finished.  There's a ton of wasted time with no additional challenge for advanced and gifted students in the APS system.[/quote]

So essentially GT had been eliminated?[/quote]

No. GT enrichment work is available to all. [/quote]

In practice, this means an extra worksheet is available to everyone. [/quote]

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