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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]quick update. My DC who wasn’t ‘gifted’ last year due to missing data is now ‘gifted’ according to mcps. The MAP threshold for both reading and math is 80th percentile. Plus a score of 5 on some math and ELA assessments. Thought this might be helpful to someone.[/quote]

It is amazing to me that MCPS continues to misunderstand how to use “multiple measures” in identifying students for enriched/accelerated instruction. You’re supposed to use all the measures holistically, giving students who may not perform well in certain ways the opportunity to show their potential and be scooped up and given a chance in accelerated instruction. Instead, MCPS uses single data points to eliminate students and gatekeep opportunities in spite of otherwise compelling data. To make matters worse, schools point fingers at Central Office and Central office points fingers at schools, leaving families gaslit about the process and criteria, and giving some students at some schools access and others with sometimes more compelling data barriers. There’s this underlying assumption that any parents questioning the inconsistencies are entitled/demanding/annoying. Really toxic and quite frankly completely unnecessary and in total opposition to all of the district’s stated and published goals on the subject.[/quote]

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