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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does Hamm offer gifted English or Social Studies programming, does anyone know?  My child was previously identified and I can’t tell how it is structured in middle school.  TY![/quote]

Yes, there is a gifted resource specialist at each middle school who works with teachers to develop differentiated materials. You should be able to find more info (maybe a BTS night recording?) online. If not, reach out to the specialist at Hamm. Middle schools are required to cluster gifted students like they do in ES, but as far as I know math is the only subject that that actually has a separate, accelerated class (although that class isn’t necessarily totally composed of gifted identified students, and not all gifted students are placed in that class).[/quote]

Yeah, well, that's on paper.  My kids were "gifted" in multiple subjects; but nothing was done in middle school, even the clustering, until I asked for it (English, social studies). I agree on the math point, however; they're done by class as in Algebra v. pre-algebra, for example; but not necessarily by gifted identification.  And that's absolutely appropriate, IMO.  7th and 8th graders taking Algebra don't need to be separated into gifted 7th graders and gifted 8th graders taking algebra.  algebra is algebra.  But 7th grade English isn't "advanced" and 6th grade social studies isn't "advanced."  Those subjects need differentiation. [/quote]

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