Hi Traceyqns,
my ds goes to a nyc gifted school.
My experience has not been good. I have a son whose gifts are for abstract thinking/reasoning/reading but whose writing is weak and math computation skills are not that great(though his math reasoning skills are) and it's been an unmitigated disaster for us. I have been very disappointed. It is just simply not working, but I'm not sure it's the school's fault... largely my son's fault, I guess...He is not conforming to expectations.
Anyway I will probably home school next year.
If you have a child who is simply advanced, with no other issues (behavioral, etc.) it might work!
One thing is that the class sizes are huge-- there are 29 kids in the son's class. And 20 of them are girls. So a bouncy boy will really stand out.
I'm surprised you're getting any answers at all from the DOE?
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Is this for Kindergarten?
