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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Does Fairfax or Moco gifted program test for IQ? No. They do a standardized test just like PARCC. Sorry sweetie, your kid is average (which is good in DC with 75% of kids in poverty and not reading at grade level). So funny that you think you're all a bunch of smartie pants yet your kids can't score a 5 on PARCC.[/quote]

Actually as someone posted above Mont Co uses Cogat. Many Ffx parents have their children do private IQ tests and submit them with their application to the AAP schools (to augment what the schools do).[/quote]

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