GT Letter?
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Anonymous
| Did the letter come from school or in the mail? |
Anonymous
Ours was mailed and arrived yesterday. |
Anonymous
| Ours come home in the backpack today. It says she should be re-screened in 3rd grade. Is that something they will just do or do I have to remind them? Also, does it actually matter? My oldest got the GT label and the 2nd grade letter said he would get Junior Great Books. I don't think that ever happened, though he's consistently been in the highest reading group. |
Anonymous
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Rescreeninv PP - they think something got messed up with the test.
Compacted Math PP - they changed the criteria this year so the 3rd Grade teachers are no longer limited by InView scores. Ask the 3rd Grade teacher at the Nov conference. |
Anonymous
Do you have information on the new criteria? |
Anonymous
Our Principal shared at a PTA meeting that compacted is based on the test scores and teacher recommendation, so it will increase the amount of students who are placed in compacted. This year, they moved my oldest and a group of classmates from the enriched math class into compacted mid year. We were told the compacted group will be double in size starting 2016/17. |
Anonymous
| If the compacted math groups will double in size, will schools be forced to dumb down the curriculum? |
Anonymous
Yea, I am concerned about that, too. My DC is a rising 6th grader, in compacted math at an HGC. It was very fast paced. Some kids in his class had a hard time with the pace. If they have to slow it down, then how are they going to get all of 4,5,6 math into two years without skipping some areas? |
Anonymous
| Has anybody not received a letter with the InView scores yet? If a kid does not receive a GT designation, is a letter still sent to his or her parents? |
Anonymous
We haven't received one and I assumed we would get one (top reading/math groups well above grade level, high MAP scores). Hoping it comes next week, just so we know where our child stands, I know that it doesn't truly mean that much. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP who got one saying our child should be re-screened next year. I think everyone gets a letter. We got it on the last day when our oldest was in second grade. |
Anonymous
| According to a teacher we know, new criteria for compacted math 3rd grade selection is "Is the child likely to succeed in 4th grade compacted math?" |
Anonymous
I actually believe this may be not a bad one... My kid is finishing 5th grade in compacted now. I had to fight, really fight school to put my child in compacted in 4th. Child was missing 1 point on stupid screening. School eventually put child in, but said that they will monitor my child closely... Last week my child got 251 on Map-M, also got ES in math as quarter grade last quarter... So much for not making into that "very challenging" and in my opinion "very lame" compacted math originally... All kids should have opportunity to learn. Compacted math is not fast math... It is Common Core mess... |
Anonymous
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PP fair enough but keep in mind that only reason to go into compact math is if kid should be taking algebra in 11th grade. Personally I think its a huge mistake to double the class size.
251 is a good score but there are kids way above that... |
Anonymous
| PP here. I meant calculus in 11th grade. |