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[quote=Anonymous][quote]For kids with scores lower than the cutoff, if the schools inflate their GBRS, they can get in. I think the county should just use the national NNAT/COGAT scores, eliminate the parent referal and school inflated GBRS in the process, that seems to be fair. [/quote]

Ugh, I am SO sick of reading this!

Basically, if your kid had great test scores, you think test scores are the only "objective" (and apparently infallible) measure of giftedness and should be the only criterion.  If a child with not-as-great test scores gets it, it couldn't possibly be because that child is also bright enough to need to be in the Center.  It has to be because the school "inflated" the GBRS, the schools are "hand-picking" some kids and even purposely sabotating some high test-scoring kids by giving low GBRS, the GBRS is "too subjective," and something corrupt has to be going on if any of these "dummies" who did not test into the screening pool are getting into the Center.

Guess what.  Some kids test VERY close to the cutoff but don't make the pool, but they still belong in the Center.

My kid barely missed the cutoff, and he got in, and his GBRS was not "inflated."  His GBRS reflected what his teacher and the AART think of him.  His report card is perfect, and he is a superstar at school and is pulled out of his class 5 days/wk for advanced math & language arts with specialists.  The teacher told me my DS is easily THE best math student the teacher has ever had in any 2nd grade class.  We have no idea what happened with his test scores and why they weren't higher.  My DD tested into the pool very easily 2 years ago and is thriving in the Center, and she has nowhere near the amazingly logical mathematical mind that my DS has.  Sometimes very talented kids test only in the 97th percentile (which is outside the pool); mine is one of them.

So you may think that test scores should be the one and only factor and that my child should be excluded (and believe me, you'd be singing a different tune if your extremely bright child missed the pool by ONE point; then things wouldn't seem so black & white to you).  You're entitled to your opinion, but fortunately the County does not agree with you and uses multiple factors to evaluate these kids.  [/quote]

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