The school district next door to us just shuttered its TAG program citing the academic rigor it provides for all students.
They plan to allow all students currently in the program to finish the year and will allow them to stay at the school they are at but in mainstream classes for next year and beyond.
I feel for those families and hope we can make room for their students at our TAG school.
That is very sad.
In addition to the obvious budgetary considerations that may be a driving force, I wonder how much of this is Common Core providing "rigor for all" that is being misinterpreted by administrators as "built-in differentiation" that obviates the need for anything more.
Of course, AP/Honors has been used this way at the high school level for quite some time, but seeing it creep downward into elementary is very upsetting to me.
