be careful banking on a grade skip in the TDSB. i've heard parents are being told these days that it is a total non-starter in that board, and literally never, ever allowed anymore.
Well, I found
this newspaper story. It was written in 2007.
This blog post is dated last month. It was written by a woman who teaches in the gifted ed program in Toronto, and it mentions acceleration. But it also makes two apparently contradictory statements, which is weird:
Acceleration - Providing the opportunity for students to move more rapidly through a particular curricular sequence without regard to age or setting.
One thing teachers in my school board cannot do is teach curriculum material which is not within the scope of our grade level (advanced acceleration). In the Toronto District School board, we have been instructed to teach the content which has been mandated by the Ministry of Education for Ontario. A lot of parents and teachers assume that teachers are going to teach expectations from the grade(s) ahead but we are not permitted to do so.
I'm not sure what this means. If a child finishes first grade math in November, will they send him to the next classroom? Or just give him more first grade work that's supposedly "in depth?"
