Let's see in middle school my older son is clustered into a gifted academy. Not really that accelerated except they all took algebra in 8th grade and that isn't what the majority of the school does...it is more of a differentiation...the teacher for each subject area class teaches the one gifted class they have differently than her/his other classes.
In high school he is going to accelerate math by taking two math classes each year. His school is on a 4x4 block schedule....they take four classes each semester for double time and cover a year in a semester...so he will take geometry one semester and algebra II the next. And the next year do the same thing with pre calc and another math.
His elementary school brother had 2 wonderful gifted endorsed classroom teachers last year who I met with and they just figured out on their own what to do with him. This year he skipped a grade and that pretty much met his needs. Next year they are going to have to figure something out.
Last edited by Sweetie; 05/14/14 01:08 PM.
