[quote=AN]The more I hear about GATE/Seminar and budget problem, the more I’m leaning toward keeping my kids in private school.[/quote]
I think the key thing I gleaned from this thread is – each school is different. There are probably several that do it right, several that do it badly and several that do it in a way that makes it no different from regular school.
My boy/girl twins both tested GATE and we got the whole pitch on what it means – but I can’t say the quality of the GATE program will steer us away from the middle school we expect to attend, unless there are real problems with both the standard and GATE classes.
I was in higher-level classes as a high-schooler and was isolated from the rest of the class for freshman and sohpomore years. I must say, I hated that.
