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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://analytics.apsva.us/public/equity/aps_membership.html

Look at the numbers. They are nowhere near half the students[/quote]

I'm hoping this comment was a matter of just being lazy and not agenda based. Not every kid in APS is "identified" officially as gifted, especially after APS essentially allowed any kid to do gifted lessons. The process can be embarrassing (self promotion) and a bit humiliating when you see the average kids who were allowed to join the gifted cadre after yours scored at the top or off the charts and was still made to feel inadequate during the process. Every officially identified kid is not gifted, many are far from it based upon experience and it becomes more obvious year-on-year. But once you're identified you can't be un-identified.

Look at the numbers in that chart to see what a joke APS is. First, they include the population from non-traditional high school programs that skew the data and there's no way to remove just them (not many students, but still...). Second, look at some of the subpopulations, especially "white." It's good to know that in a county where the running joke is that every parent thinks their kid is above-average, half the white moms think that theirs are super-above-above-average!!!

The real gifted numbers for us seemed to be closer to 2-5 total kids in elementary and fewer than 10% in ms/hs (but closer to 50% in practice) with actual gifted lessons taught at a slightly above grade level, which I think is still lower than what was considered "at grade level" 20 or 30 years ago.[/quote]

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