Anonymous wrote:

NotThatKindofDoctor wrote:Thanks! Honestly, the whole GT thing wasn't even really what I cared about. Her psychiatrist asked for the CogAT profile to help get a fuller picture about her strengths and struggles (she has ADHD and anxiety so it can be hard to sometimes sort out what the causal mechanism is for a struggle.) Sucks we don't have that, though I'm aware MCPS doesn't give the CogAT for that purpose.

Also, I cannot tell you the confusion we created when we emailed the MCPS Accelerated and Enriched Instruction Office who absolutely insisted we were wrong and everyone had gotten the CogAT. They acted like we were dumb for not being able to find it on ParentVue. Took the principal escalating to someone to get an actual answer

Ugh, that is not reassuring to hear from AEI-- you were clear you were talking about a 5th grader? They should know who got what when better than anyone!

And the CogAT last year was only the abbreviated screener anyway (3 tests rather than 9) so it might not have been what you needed anyway. (I read they are doing the full one this year, though.)

Yes. My husband went to one of the virtual GT Q&A sessions and asked, noting that our kid is in 5th grade. They told him he was wrong when he said she didn't have one available on ParentVue, everyone had it. So we emailed the AEI with the explicit info about her being in 5th grade and they emailed back that she did get it and after being pressed they sent a google doc template for what the CogAT letter should have looked like so we could find it (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C5I6q8jFC1FsfCeI_BadpBGwMEVIb7Pe8XoCa1sgl9g/edit?usp=sharing). When the principal got the answer through her own channels and we asked them to confirm the AEI just didn't respond. We've sent two follow-ups and they are just ghosting us now.

I would be much less annoyed if they hadn't acted like all that! Makes me wonder about AEI in a lot of ways though

Thanks! Honestly, the whole GT thing wasn't even really what I cared about. Her psychiatrist asked for the CogAT profile to help get a fuller picture about her strengths and struggles (she has ADHD and anxiety so it can be hard to sometimes sort out what the causal mechanism is for a struggle.) Sucks we don't have that, though I'm aware MCPS doesn't give the CogAT for that purpose.

Also, I cannot tell you the confusion we created when we emailed the MCPS Accelerated and Enriched Instruction Office who absolutely insisted we were wrong and everyone had gotten the CogAT. They acted like we were dumb for not being able to find it on ParentVue. Took the principal escalating to someone to get an actual answer

My kid is in 5th grade and has been at the same MCPS elementary school since kindergarten. We found out recently that no kids in her grade were ever given CogAT. Even kids who warranted a reassessment based upon their 2nd grade evaluation for GT (which was not done with CogAT but just MAP scores and survey results from teachers and parents) did not get the CogAT in 3rd grade. Their rescreening was just based on the same criteria listed above.

Is this just an issue at her school or were all current 5th graders skipped back when they were in second and third grade?

Sorry if this was already discussed - I searched the forum but didn't see this specific question/issue