Here in the NJ suburbs, we have the 2nd best public schools in the nation.
And this is great for the middle ~98% of students, but gifted is defined as students with scholastic aptitudes at least 2 standard deviations from the median for their age cohort, so the top 2%, which is just as much a special needs category as severely learning disabled students in the bottom 2%, who have a federal mandate for appropriate education.
These special needs get even more stark when we are talking about kids in the top 0.1% and .01% and beyond, and you bet there are plenty such profoundly gifted children in the NY metro area.
These kids will simply not thrive in a common core designed for their age cohort, which is the same statewide for poor urban districts and rich suburban districts alike.
Educators make noise about "inclusive" classrooms and "differentiation," but teachers have to teach to the lowest denominator, and research shows the slowest kids in the class get more differentiated attention, to the detriment of other students.
Arbitrarily keeping a profoundly gifted child with their cohort in a standard classroom is the equivalent of taking a 30 year old and making them sit through ~ 5th grade.
Only dedicated K-12 G&T classrooms like the NYC citywides, or acceleration can address these kids' needs.
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