First, AIG is AG in our state - sorry!
It will be a hard choice IF DD10, AIG math, also gets an AIG designation this week in language arts (we are waiting to find out). If she does not, she, I feel, would be better off in the large GT magnet. DD10 really wants AIG language arts and the AIG specialist is advocating for her.
I spoke to the asst. principal at the AIG "school within a school" magnet yesterday. She was very warm and comforting. She states that the sixth grade teachers are very protective of their students plus, if DD9 wanted to be with her big sister in some classes, they could make that happen (ha! so far they just bicker if they are in the same class). I asked if I could talk with parents whose kids had skipped grades, and the principal said it was one child, a few years ago, who skipped a grade. Guess it's rare that this year several kids were accelerated! I sent out an email to another mom whose children attend this AIG magnet to see what she says. I hope that she can talk more about that disconnect between AIG and "regular" (as the other kids are called.
I am aware of the issue of everyone wanting their kids to be in the "gifted classes", and the idea that kids need to learn that everyone has strengths and weaknesses. I have to consider if my older DD will be happy knowing that she isn't in the AIG language arts class despite how well she has handled her little sister coming into her class.
ConnectingDots, definitely we have ruled out the small charter with the ornery principal. I can't figure out how the school has a reputation for being warm and fuzzy when the leader is so cranky! Every mom I have spoken to who toured the school came away rather taken aback at how prickly the principal was!
Indigo - I'll check out those articles!!
