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[quote=Anonymous]Is there any real research showing there are gifted and talented kids in the huge numbers we find at MCPS?  I think that the parents who flock to the GTA are simply enamored with thinking their kids are gifted.  Looking at magnet demographics which is tilted in favor of Asians in recent years, I think the term gifted means children of parents who can afford prep classes and push them to excel.  Maybe the education reporter for WaPo was right when he wrote " In Alexandria, Sherman wants to expand minority enrollment in elementary-level gifted programs. The city School Board has ordered that all students take the second-grade aptitude test, rather than the old policy of referring just some children for screening. That doesn’t address my problems with gifted education: the deceptive nature of the label and the idea that only some children are good enough for enriched instruction. Saying your kid is gifted makes us parents feel good, if we ignore the fact that the lowest-scoring gifted child and the one who just missed getting the designation are pretty much the same, yet one gets special attention and one doesn’t.

Many school districts are trying to eliminate this inequity, but very quietly because so many parents love the label. Montgomery County is offering advanced programs to just about anyone who wants them. Fairfax County is going in the same direction, even though both districts still have special schools for the highest-scoring gifted children."

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