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Your kid is not obviously gifted [b]to the teacher[/b] and your opinion matters little In the matter. [/quote]
This is the problem with GBRS.  A child who has an IQ above 130 is by definition gifted.  The teacher's opinion doesn't change that, and if teachers are failing to identify giftedness in kids who are technically gifted, then the teacher's opinions mean next to nothing.  [/quote]

Not really, since that child was in.  I'm not even sure why that PP is complaining, since the process worked for her DC.[/quote]

I wasn't complaining so much as refuting the idea that the GBRS should be the gold standard and carry the most weight.  Some teachers are great at recognizing gifted behaviors.  Others are not.  In the end, it's just one person's biased, flawed opinion of another person.  It's fine if GBRS is used to let kids in with scores below the threshold, but it shouldn't be used as a way to keep kids out with high test scores.  If a kid has high test scores, is above grade level in math and reading, has great grades, and in all other ways is an advanced student, but the teacher doesn't "see giftedness", then that kid still belongs in AAP.  Mine got in and is thriving there, but it's absurd that a lot of similar kids are being left out because their teachers didn't like them.  [/quote]

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