Back to "work-booky" schools. I think it imperative that schools for GT get over this method! These kids are at a higher risk for dropping out of school and giving them more of the same instead of something different does nothing to prevent this.
My DH teaches honors and AP courses and is constantly discouraged by the teachers that think "honors" means giving more vocabulary worksheets instead of fewer. The honors kids need to move on to the deeper kinds of learning and skip some of the vocabulary sheets - stick to the words that are really new to them.
Okay this is a rant that probably belongs in a different forum, but there is all kinds of research out there to support this and it sounds so whiney, arrogant, and overprotective to say my child is needs something different - especially if he is proving the teacher right by not doing the assigned work! (probably not the teacher's problem
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