Our district does a weekly 1 1/2 hour pull-out for kids in 2nd through 6th grade who test out as GT. It is enrichment oriented - they do things like go on field trips, see concerts, build stuff, create poems, etc. It's definitely the highlight of DS6's week. Any kid, GT or not, would benefit from this pullout given the lack of enrichment stuff in the curriculum now. Lots of parents are resentful that their kids don't get to participate and I don't blame them - their tax dollars are paying for other kids to go on field trips! IMHO, I think the district uses the pullout to placate parents of GT kids so they don't have to differentiate the curriculum on a daily basis.
