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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rampant misinformation on so many threads on DCUM is terrible. The GT letter is used by home schools to identify kids for enrichment in math and/or literacy. This enrichment is not lottery based.[/quote]

This is just PR. Have you been to classrooms or spoke to your child at MCPS? There is no enrichment happening at the local schools anymore. No cohorts for reading and math either. I have to wonder what enrichment are you talking about? [/quote]

Yes, my child has had pull outs for math, and literacy enrichment was through small group. Could it be better? Absolutely. The point is that he was identified for enrichment based on the GT letter. The quality of enrichment leaves much too be desired, but it's better than nothing and he enjoyed the pullouts.[/quote]

GT designation is not meaningless. That’s what we had thought though that its meaningless. Unfortunately it is used for literacy enrichment and assigning reading groups. My DC has been a strong reader from a very young age. Was always placed in the highest reading groups from K-2, but did not get GT designation (because if missing data) in 2nd and was blindly placed in the lowest group in 3rd grade. When I approached the teacher I was told only the GT kids get to read chapter books in reading groups. It didn’t matter that my DC had a high MAP R score or the fact that DC was actually an awesome reader. So yeah the designation is not meaningless. It is being used to widen the achievement gap between the lowest and the highest reading groups. [/quote]

What data was missing?

[b]Anyway if your kid is an amazing reader then she's already on the high side of the achievement gap and doesn't need one more book  per quarter.[/b]

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Completely off.  The system is supposed to address the need.  If a kid is ahead of their peers, it's not OK to have them coast if they show ability/intereat.  That was the whole purpose of the state legislation, to require the school districts to identify that ability and meet the associated need.

MCPS pays it lip service to the state requirement with the SIPPI/GT Identification process, but neither uses measures appropriately in identification nor employs enrichments appropriately to meet the need.  They have CES, ELC, accelerated math, criteria-based MS magnets and associated local courses (AIM/HIGH/whatever they might do for science & language), but these aren't linked to GT ID (placement is, generally, more restrictive), are scarce compared to the GT population and appear to be pretty variable in their implementation from school to school.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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