<p>Our state seems to have mostly window dressing for ‘gifted.’ They tend to have one (often marginal) teacher assigned to do something for those who are somenow ID’d as gifted. In grade school, it was a special pull out program, where they would have to do whatever coursework they missed in the regular classroom plus whatever the gifted teacher assigned. Neither of my kids found the class at all engaging and D begged to be able to quit because she was tired of having the ‘gifted’ teacher make the kids cry every day because she honestly wasn’t good with kids at all.</p>
<p>In 7th grade, S had a gifted SS teacher who pretended he was invisible because he asked her questions she couldn’t answer and after that, she totally ignored him. She had him for two years, 7th & 8th grades! It made him very reticent around authroity figures after that, until he transferred to a private HS where they seemed more accepting of varying abilities of their students and not intimindated when students had a lot of curiousity and a lot of tallent.</p>
<p>Have never heard of an IEP for giftedness and when I was trained as a hearing officer for our state, it was NEVER mentioned as an option.</p>