Unable to withdraw student/child from high achieving/gifted classroom--full year commitment

Hello--I'm in Georgia (US) if it matters. My daughter is in 2nd grade and attends regular public school. She was invited to be in the gifted classroom this year, but as a general education student. She has never tested for gifted, but they marked her as high achieving and will be putting her in the gifted classroom (with other high achieving students)--but just as a general student.

This is a full-year commitment. Once she is in it--she cannot be moved to a regular classroom. I asked the principal at her school what happens if my child starts failing. Even though she was identified as high achieving...maybe she's just not full gifted material. The principal's response was essentially that my child would continue the whole year in the class, she cannot be moved, and if she fails, she fails. I found this just a bit odd--to me student achievement would/should be the highest priority. It just doesn't make sense to me they would let a child fail instead of moving them to a more appropriate classroom.

Is this normal? Is there something to this logic I'm missing? Is this common in most schools? Thanks!

Submitted July 23, 2021 at 09:40AM by bla4free https://ift.tt/3kSuYLw