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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks, all. I don't think our ES is intentionally excluding kids based on sex, but I don't totally trust them to be administering the tests well or putting their best effort into recommendations, etc.

The admin in general is very uncommunicative and opaque and the principal has a history of seeming to not want kids to leave the school for special programs, not wanting to do anything beyond the usual, insisting that the status quo in all things is GREAT and discouraging parents from seeking information or improvements or advocating for their kids. She doesn't seem to encourage people to excel, all around. So if I trusted the principal and things were a little less opaque, I wouldn't feel so paranoid.

It's not worth the drama of a MPIA request (I think that would create SO much drama and I'm not willing to blow the goodwill I've built up there on it), but it's a good option to know about, so thanks.

The randomness year-to-year anecdotes helped. Part of my confusion was that many girls from other schools that I know got in, in fact almost every girl friend my daughter has outside of her ES. Girls that seemed to me to be all over the spectrum, to put it bluntly/honestly, in terms of how suited they'd be to a gifted program. I guess they just tested well, though, and I'm sure there are things I don't know about them. I know this sounds like sour grapes, believe me, and I don't mean it to! I'm not convinced the HGC would be best for my (wait listed) kid anyway. I just get sick of everything being so damn opaque at MCPS. I just want to understand the options well and be able to advocate for my kid and trust that someone at the school is doing the same. I feel like not only do I have to ask questions to find anything out, sometimes it's hard even to know that questions should be asked about something![/quote]

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