In short, the principal agreed that they would deal with the scheduling issue to make that happen. Whole grade acceleration is an option, too, if that is what our son needs and what we want. ...
How lucky are we? We don't have a gifted program in our school, but our principal is surely trying his best to accommodate the gifted kids in a very real and meaningful way.
That is wonderful news Cocopandan. Interestingly, I've just been skimming a book that has the premise that although there certainly are kids with special educational needs for higher challenge, that they are different enough from each other that what is needed so that the label, "Gifted Child" makes no sense in a school setting. The writer proposes that instead of 'gifted programs' what should be offered is a set of ways to analyze the individual needs and the flexibility to arrange resource to meet those needs. It sounds like your principal is doing that and it is a wonderful example.
I still think that pull out pull out gifted programs have their place in the 'set of ways to analyze and accommodate' but I do believe that their are usually going to be more than one way to get the job of accommodation done workably.
Yippee for the School!
Grinity
