Anonymous
Post 01/24/2014 19:05     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought DCPS didn't do anything for gifted kids?


I would say you are right there is no formal program. However, I do know that schools are aware of the problem and providing more challenges to their advanced kids in places like Ward 3. I would say this is less common EOTP.


I would say you are talking out of your hat.


Really? What's your evidence that she is "talking out of your hat"?


the fact that she/he prefaces each statement with "I would say"
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2014 18:31     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought DCPS didn't do anything for gifted kids?


I would say you are right there is no formal program. However, I do know that schools are aware of the problem and providing more challenges to their advanced kids in places like Ward 3. I would say this is less common EOTP.


I would say you are talking out of your hat.


Really? What's your evidence that she is "talking out of your hat"?
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2014 17:35     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought DCPS didn't do anything for gifted kids?


I would say you are right there is no formal program. However, I do know that schools are aware of the problem and providing more challenges to their advanced kids in places like Ward 3. I would say this is less common EOTP.


I would say you are talking out of your hat.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2014 13:42     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
Anonymous wrote:I thought DCPS didn't do anything for gifted kids?


I would say you are right there is no formal program. However, I do know that schools are aware of the problem and providing more challenges to their advanced kids in places like Ward 3. I would say this is less common EOTP.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2014 19:48     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
If your child is really advanced, JGB at grade level might not be challenging enough. After all, the program was designed for all children, not just the ones from Lake Wobegon
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2014 19:11     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
I thought DCPS didn't do anything for gifted kids?
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2014 18:36     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
In DCPS Junior Great Books ARE used for gifted students, or advanced students, or whatever they call them. If people think that's not fair then maybe we should get rid of all special education programs too for students on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2014 16:49     Subject: "Junior Great Books" for advanced kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Junior Great Books are known for being used in gifted/talented programs, particularly gifted pull-outs. And the basis for this claim is in part due to a Google search--it's used in Prince George's County Public Schools and Montgomery County Public Schools for that reason. I didn't see evidence of it from the JGB website itself but from seeing what other school districts say they use it for when I did a Google search.


OK JGB "is known to be used in gifted/talented programs". That doesn't mean JGB was "designed" for gifted and talented.

Sounds like a way to exclude other people's children from getting JGB and make parents who think their children are gifted/talented feel good. Fair enough.


I was waiting for this response. God forbid, any child be more intellectually advanced than another child. we must keep everything equal--therefore at the lowest level possible so no one gets their feelings hurt. So not only can we not have gifted and talented classes, apparently we aren't supposed even have a slightly more advanced reading group. I swear living in DC is turning me into a republican. This liberal feel good crap is tiresome.


That's total nonsense. In DCPS students are grouped into guided reading groups according to reading level.