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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 320906" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>The gifted education can also vary within a single school district. I opted to pull my GATE identified daughter out of our elementary school, which clusters these kids with high achievers in one classroom, and sent her to the GATE magnet school in our district, mainly because her older brother had already gone through the cluster program and I was not impressed. The teachers did not seem motivated nor equipped to handle the special needs of these kids, and I don't feel my son got the education he really needed while there. So far, my daughter is doing VERY well in this new magnet school. And while she's not getting straight A's anymore (she truly coasted in the regular classroom setting), she is working harder and learning more. I'd rather her be in the GATE class and getting A's and B's than be a straight A student who's bored to death.</p><p> </p><p>difficult child 2 is at the GATE magnet middle school this year, and while he did not qualify for a GATE math class (thanks in part, I feel, to the poor job his teacher did last year at the elementary school), he is in an advanced science, social science and lang arts class. There is actually LESS homework in these classes than there is in the regular middle school that difficult child 1 went to. But the level of work is clearly much higher, and he's doing pretty well, all things considered.</p><p> </p><p>So I think if you have a child that is gifted, you have to consider all the options within your district for them, because they are not all equal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 320906, member: 3444"] The gifted education can also vary within a single school district. I opted to pull my GATE identified daughter out of our elementary school, which clusters these kids with high achievers in one classroom, and sent her to the GATE magnet school in our district, mainly because her older brother had already gone through the cluster program and I was not impressed. The teachers did not seem motivated nor equipped to handle the special needs of these kids, and I don't feel my son got the education he really needed while there. So far, my daughter is doing VERY well in this new magnet school. And while she's not getting straight A's anymore (she truly coasted in the regular classroom setting), she is working harder and learning more. I'd rather her be in the GATE class and getting A's and B's than be a straight A student who's bored to death. difficult child 2 is at the GATE magnet middle school this year, and while he did not qualify for a GATE math class (thanks in part, I feel, to the poor job his teacher did last year at the elementary school), he is in an advanced science, social science and lang arts class. There is actually LESS homework in these classes than there is in the regular middle school that difficult child 1 went to. But the level of work is clearly much higher, and he's doing pretty well, all things considered. So I think if you have a child that is gifted, you have to consider all the options within your district for them, because they are not all equal. [/QUOTE]
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