GTA in Montgomery County

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post the link? What listserv? I feel like I'm being left out.

It's a groups io listserv and it's called GTA Letters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post the link? What listserv? I feel like I'm being left out.

It's a groups io listserv and it's called GTA Letters.

Is this group private/member only? Seems like one needs to pay money to be a member of GTA and be able to get access to this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post the link? What listserv? I feel like I'm being left out.

It's a groups io listserv and it's called GTA Letters.

Is this group private/member only? Seems like one needs to pay money to be a member of GTA and be able to get access to this.

This is not true. I mean I have never paid.

[Anonymous]

I have never paid and lurk on GTALetters. I did notice that they do stifle debate. It is an association that represents a minority of folks who promote segregation by relentlessly prepping their children and claiming they are "gifted" and is thankfully fading into irrelevance. Maybe they can go around harassing government officials when they are trying to have a meal (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/3/scott-pruitt-epa-chief-confronted-at-dc-restaurant/)?

[Anonymous]

I never bought into the GT nonsense. I am not alone. "The latest neuroscience and psychological research suggests most people, unless they are cognitively impaired, can reach standards of performance associated in school with the gifted and talented." (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq)

Maybe the GTA can advocate for building on land being submerged by rising sea levels?

[Anonymous]

Is there any real research showing there are gifted and talented kids in the huge numbers we find at MCPS? I think that the parents who flock to the GTA are simply enamored with thinking their kids are gifted. Looking at magnet demographics which is tilted in favor of Asians in recent years, I think the term gifted means children of parents who can afford prep classes and push them to excel. Maybe the education reporter for WaPo was right when he wrote " In Alexandria, Sherman wants to expand minority enrollment in elementary-level gifted programs. The city School Board has ordered that all students take the second-grade aptitude test, rather than the old policy of referring just some children for screening. That doesn’t address my problems with gifted education: the deceptive nature of the label and the idea that only some children are good enough for enriched instruction. Saying your kid is gifted makes us parents feel good, if we ignore the fact that the lowest-scoring gifted child and the one who just missed getting the designation are pretty much the same, yet one gets special attention and one doesn’t.

Many school districts are trying to eliminate this inequity, but very quietly because so many parents love the label. Montgomery County is offering advanced programs to just about anyone who wants them. Fairfax County is going in the same direction, even though both districts still have special schools for the highest-scoring gifted children."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grand Theft Auto?

Yes MCPS needs more AAA games

[Anonymous]

Just because you despise the people on that particular listserve, doesn't mean that the whole concept of being gifted (or the opposite) is false.

I have a gifted child. Her mind thinks more in-depth, works faster and connects more dots than those of my other children, raised in the same household with the same exposure to learning. The research bears this out, despite the PP cherrypicking one article out of a multitude that confirm it.

Additionally, I also have a child with learning disabilities. Those are very real too, unfortunately. He works 5 times as hard as his gifted sibling to achieve less. Please accept that humans operate on a spectrum of functionality, and we're all doing the best we can with what we have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Just because you despise the people on that particular listserve, doesn't mean that the whole concept of being gifted (or the opposite) is false.

I have a gifted child. Her mind thinks more in-depth, works faster and connects more dots than those of my other children, raised in the same household with the same exposure to learning. The research bears this out, despite the PP cherrypicking one article out of a multitude that confirm it.

Additionally, I also have a child with learning disabilities. Those are very real too, unfortunately. He works 5 times as hard as his gifted sibling to achieve less. Please accept that humans operate on a spectrum of functionality, and we're all doing the best we can with what we have.

Thank you for reminding us that children have different educational needs. This doesn’t need to be a zero sum game

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post the link? What listserv? I feel like I'm being left out.

It's a groups io listserv and it's called GTA Letters.

Is it a yahoo group listserv?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please post the link? What listserv? I feel like I'm being left out.

It's a groups io listserv and it's called GTA Letters.

Is it a yahoo group listserv?

No. It used to be but moved to groupsio.

[Anonymous]

Google groups io and GTAletters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Google groups io and GTAletters

Sorry that didn’t work. Google groups io. Then within groups io search for GTALETTERS and it comes up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grand Theft Auto?

That's what I thought too...

[Anonymous]

For the confused:

Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County

links:

https://www.facebook.com/GTAMC/

https://groups.io/g/GTALetters