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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got a 129 on the NNAT this year.  We are moving to another FCPS school (with same GT center) this summer. Current teacher says I should absolutely parent refer next year (I didn't even ask - she volunteered this info). (My understanding is that this score falls just below the threshold.)

I'm following an ongoing thread on another email list about percentages, ratios of students who get in by GT center, etc.  Someone is suggesting that there should be an allowance made for families with fewer economic resources whose kids score beneath the threshold - because maybe they couldn't or didn't have the means to prep.

We wouldn't fall into such a category, but it is making me wonder, should I be prepping my kid for the CogAT?  I know it was customized to the county this year.  Honestly - I didn't even know prepping was going on until this spring.  It just seems really unfair to have my kid competing with all these kids who have been prepped.

I was in the school this week and heard a classmate of my child's announce that she was going to the local GT center when she goes to 3rd grade.  Her siblings both attend there now.  I was kind of shocked - like how do YOU know you're going?

Am I missing something?[/quote]

She doesn't KNOW.  But she is assuming because older siblings go there.  that happens in alot of families.  She's just being a kid... she doesn't know what she's really saying.[/quote]

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