Feeling your pain! DD7's 2nd grade class size is 31 at her public, non-gifted school. The only acceleration she gets is harder take-home spelling lists. She spends a lot of time sitting and waiting for other kids to finish tasks, during which she sneaks in reading a book.
We can't expect better from this school. The only teacher aides are parents who volunteer. But apparently there is another school in the district where many parents of gifted children send their children. Even though the classes are still large there, up to half of the class might be gifted which could help a great deal. We might look at that school but it would require moving, again.
I don't have any advice either, but will note that our biggest mistake was accepting at face value what our district and school websites said about their gifted and talented program. We later discovered it was outdated and largely untrue.
Last edited by Pru; 05/16/11 02:23 PM.
