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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think they rely a lot on the answers to those questions. DD was referred for art and I said that she got into my makeup and did really beautiful eyeshadow look. For other stuff I think I included some insightful comments she had made. It wasn't a big deal.

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I kind of think the parent referral form exists just to appease a certain type of parent. It would actually be very unfair if they gave it much weight vs teacher observations, test scores, etc. [/quote]
It's been a super weird few years and, at least at our school, fewer kids have been identified.

I was told in Feb 2020 at our conference that our child was going to be teacher-referred for gifted.  With COVID hitting a week later, that didn't happen.  Then there was a virtual year with very little opportunity for the kids to get to know teachers.  Then last year was a mess with teachers getting kids caught up.  We finally parent referred this year after our daughter's teacher expressed surprise that our child hadn't been tagged given her test scores and school performance.  I'm not sure the normal mechanisms have been working well.  We didn't want to be those parents, but it's been an odd few years and didn't want that to hurt our kid.[/quote]

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