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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t worry about it as gifted programming in Arlington isn’t particularly... exceptional. He will either be identified or not, but it won’t really affect his education one way or another (although maybe your ego might be temporarily buoyed.)[/quote]

This.

Also, some schools identify a full 30% which is statistically not possible. It's not hard to get identified, you don't have to push for anything b/c there is nothing to get. Maybe an extra math worksheet; maybe a game every now and then. And a tweet; probably a tweet. [/quote]

One thing that is misleading about this statistic is that it implies "gifted"(for services purposes) is a a yes/no thing.  Students are evaluated for math, reading/writing, social studies and science independently, and only get services in the subjects for which they are identified.  So assuming your 30% statistic is accurate (I've not seen it anywhere), that doesn't mean 30% of students are getting services in all subjects.[/quote]

The gifted ID rate at each school is in the APS budget. Each school has a budget page. It shows total student population and gifted ID-ed kids (and many other things). Look at some of the N ARL schools. Do the math, the ID rate is 30%.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FY-2020-School-Board-Adopted-Budget-Book_Final-for-Web.pdf[/quote]

I think the PPs point is that a person could be receiving gifted services in just one category... math and not science, for instance. Or arts and not academics. So yes the ID rate is 30% but it's not necessarily that all 30% of the students are IDed as gifted across all subjects.[/quote]

I realize that.
My point is that "gifted" is 3 standard deviations above the mean. Therefore, 30% of the population can't be identified in anything for any IDing to be legitimate. 
That said, gifted services are not much in APS. If I am wrong on that point, I'd love to hear more. My child is at a huge school so maybe it's just that school. [/quote]

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