Does it really put that much of a financial or staffing burden on a district to educate the high academic ability kids?! According to Teaching Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom, it doesn't. I can tell you that our district is spending more time and resources on meetings, letters, phone calls, etc. dealing with my advocating for DS than if they would just let him do an online math course in place of the regular math a few times a week... Plus, you'd think a district would be motivated to keep kids like DS in the district who are a shoe-in for getting "advanced" on the standardized tests, thus more $$.
Why not just have an acceleration policy and be done with it?
High grades, supporting test scores, and assent from the parents and children.
That's how it was done in my case 20+ years ago. On the FIRST day I arrived in the district.
Why do things have to be so difficult?
