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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make opt-in AAP available for all, but then create a true gifted program for truly gifted--not just bright--kids.[/quote]

What qualifies them as truly gifted? Test scores? Back to square 1.[/quote]

Test scores much higher than the current cut-offs, for one.[/quote]

A 132 on a test such as the Cogat or NNAT reasonably identifies gifted students.  The complaints are about the students who are admitted who scored much lower on both tests and on all subsections.  [/quote]

It honestly doesn’t.  Mine had a CogAT of 138.  She’s smart.  She’s not gifted.  She has a friend who had a perfect score on the NNAT.  Also not gifted. The gifted kids I know (handful) that have taken the CogAT scored in the 150s (without any prep).  You’d probably need to use IQ tests to identify most of them.

I have a friend elsewhere in the country, whose daughter was screened for gifted services after she was identified by her teachers.  They don’t have this sort of let’s give everyone an ability test and call it done approach, and since the screening test is an IQ test, is much more likely to actually identify giftedness.[/quote]

I'm sorry that you don't realize what gifted means or that your DD is actually quite smart, compared to the population at large and compared to the highly educated population of Fairfax County and other similarly-highly educated areas.

Also, the Fairfax County approach of testing every child is great compared with systems that only test students identified by teachers.  Teachers can be good at spotting gifted kids, but they miss some.  Those kids are just out of luck, in that system.  You apparently wouldn't identify them either...[/quote]

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