How many gifted programs are even worthwhile? Last year, DS was in the gifted math program (15% of the class) and they spent a lot of time painting the basketball court. How many people here complain that the gifted "program" is a two-hour weekly pullout that's not available until fourth grade and that involves stuff that's relatively pointless compared to meaningful learning?
My DD's school offered two hours a day, and the result was a slapdash, haphazard approach to learning that was beginning to open some serious gaps in her education. We know a fifth grader who has been in this system for a few years, and her gaps are shocking.
Which is ironic when you consider one of the school's main arguments against acceleration was gaps.
