This school has a policy that they do not skip grades and they promote "grouping students", which means students of all levels in the same classroom in order to benefit the "less smart" (trying to be politically correct) children. But this is damaging the high intelligence children.
Actually, it's not good for all kids, not just the HG+ ones.
Ability grouping--at least to some extent--is really the best way to go. No time to go look up the studies I've read on it right now, but it's pretty well documented.
Interestingly, it's best to put the highest group in one class and the above-average kids in a separate class. This gives the high-average kids the best chance to feel good about their abilities and shine. Competition with GT kids is apparently quite detrimental to them.
If anyone doubts my claims, I'll look for the sources later. Was this Karen Rogers' work? Dottie, do you know off-hand?
