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All of my children have been in the GATE program in our District for many years. The first few years, our GATE program was a pull-out program three times a year where our students were bused to the District Office for one week enrichment classe. My children still use the skills that they learned in 3rd grade in the GATE program. Due to funding, the pull out program was abandoned. Now,the GATE students are clustered at each grade level. When the GATE student population in each grade is not sufficient to "fill" a classroom, oftentimes the principal and teacher assign students who are good independent workers but test in the "proficient" level or "basic" level to that same classroom with the GATE students. As a parent of GATE children, I feel that mixing a classroom with these two type of students is an excellent decision because it offers many and varied opportunities for students to be good examples, mentors and tutors.


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