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[quote=Anonymous]"I'm really curious how you can claim that 75% of Janney's population is G&T when only 15% of the students performed advanced on PARCC. Even the very low bar of DCCAS had 53% (math) and 33% (reading) as advanced.

Totally agree with the bolded."

She said 75% would quality for a Fairfax-style G&T program, which isn't a true "gifted" program as it has a lower bar to entry.  (As does MoCo, apparently, as top 3-4% isn't quite gifted, more like top 2%).  But I agree with her.  My 99% Janney kid is the never the smartest in class - there are always a good 3-5 others who appear to be smarter, and only 2-3 who appear to really lag behind, so the cohort there is extremely bright.  (And my IQ is the same as my kid's, which I actually find a bit weird, but I also suspect it supports the view that there is a lot of "nature" at play rather than just to environment.)

And the PARRC isn't even a validated test, in the world of educational psychologists (IQ testers), and wasn't designed to measure IQ, so I'm not sure why that is relevant, other than to show ignorance.
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