GT for second grade is out

[Anonymous]

Seems like so easy to be classified as GT is mcps. What is the benefit. Feels like whole second grader could get GT status. Comments

[Anonymous]

There is no benefit. It’s just a marker. And being labeled as GT has no implication for CES admission either. It’s just something they’re required to do by law. They’re following the letter of the law — they identify the kids — but not the spirit of actually doing anything meaningful with it

[Anonymous]

My 9 year old DD was identified in second grade. At that time they weren't using the Cogat as a marker. It was just Dibels, district assessment and map m scores. She is bright but I wouldn't call her gifted. She was in the lottery for CES but didn't get in. She doesn't get enrichment per say. The only recognition I have seen so far is that her 3rd grade teacher knew about the status.

[Anonymous]

Did your second grader have the CogAT score on the letter? Mine is missing.

[Anonymous]

I checked parent vue. The Cogat score is on the letter.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Mine scored 99th%ile on Cogat.

[Anonymous]

Mine just scored 219 on MAPM. Curious about other second graders’ spring scores and how they can be best challenged in math in third grade.

[Anonymous]

Mine is like 80% on COGAT and 95% on everything else. So not GT

[Anonymous]

My second grade son apparently met the criteria. He is bright, but honestly I was a bit surprised? It seems like most of the measures he falls a bit short but in the composite he was close enough to get the designation.

Ancient times but when I was in school in the 80s/90s the kids in the gifted program were obviously so bright that they kind of didn’t fit in. Doesn’t seem to be as high of a bar these days?

[Anonymous]

There are no CoGAT scores in the letter, only the percentile. MCPS was supposed to share the full CoGAT score report and failed to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no CoGAT scores in the letter, only the percentile. MCPS was supposed to share the full CoGAT score report and failed to do so.

I was wondering about that too. I wonder how we can access that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My second grade son apparently met the criteria. He is bright, but honestly I was a bit surprised? It seems like most of the measures he falls a bit short but in the composite he was close enough to get the designation.

Ancient times but when I was in school in the 80s/90s the kids in the gifted program were obviously so bright that they kind of didn’t fit in. Doesn’t seem to be as high of a bar these days?

That is an interesting point. In fourth grade myself and two boys were in the gifted program out of around 75 kids. None of us had ANY friends though the two boys seemed to get along somewhat. We were all bullied relentlessly. This was 1996.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like so easy to be classified as GT is mcps. What is the benefit. Feels like whole second grader could get GT status. Comments

There is no benefit. The state requires it, so they do it. But it doesn't lead to anything. It's not even used to determine whether you get into the lottery for CES. It is for show only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no CoGAT scores in the letter, only the percentile. MCPS was supposed to share the full CoGAT score report and failed to do so.

Well that’s annoying. Maybe have to contact the GT coordinator at your school or AEI?

[Anonymous]

Just checked the parenvue- my child net the criteria- with cogat 89%, map-p 99%, and dibels 563. Looks like when the kid have lower than 90% cogat, other criteria is also considered. I'm not very positive our ES will use this information for enrichment classes (so far no enrichment materials during school).