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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They eliminated the process of selecting G&T kids by test at 5!

A process that rewards middle class parents who can afford to tutor their kids while claiming to be selecting for  raw intelligence is ridiculous and should have been dumped ages ago.

A child shouldn’t be punished because their mother is too busy working 60 hour weeks to teach them to read Harry Potter in kindergarten.

Don’t actually select for parental input when you are looking for raw intelligence of the kid.
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Let’s be clear here.  How do you define and measure raw intelligence?  Read the book ‘Ungifted’ and see how this highly decorated psychology professor was placed in Spec Ed classes until middle school.  What G&T mostly looks for right now is an excellent working memory and compliance.  No test captures an individual’s brilliance.  I actually think University of Rome has it about right - everyone gets in, only a few graduate.  But around here it’s just Lake Wobegon.  Where everyone is above average.  If you don’t hack it the system they just create another tract - labeled ‘honors’ - so you or more likely your law school trained parents feel good about Larlo.

What’s really going on is these magnets cull for a certain type of student to make failing public school systems - here’s looking at you MCPS - look like they aren’t failing the vast majority of kids.  See we have Blair Magnet - we aren’t failing third graders in reading if we got 15 kids from THIS school into MIT.[/quote]

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