If it does, I guess that I'd be inclined to accept adequate placement over a GIEP (i.e. - I'd take the 2nd grade placement if you are sure that it is the right thing in the long run and give up the GIEP.)
Me too, especially if a later need for further acceleration could
re-gift the student. Maybe what's going on is just somewhat of a conflation of high achievement with giftedness in the softer criteria, and maybe it also wouldn't work that way in the real world (one hopes).
I agree that good GIEP goals would include some criteria for growth and success of the acceleration.
