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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At a W feeder school, did not make it to the lottery pool even … wtf[/quote]

So, being at a W feeder automatically qualifies your kid?  wtf
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Actually I meant the opposite. Not sure what stats you need to qualify from a W feeder as my kid has the stats required but i am
Sure the cut off for low farms school is higher and therefore my kid did not qualify.  [/quote]

If the kid didn’t make the lottery pool, then they didn’t meet the basic score requirements of report card and top 15 percentile MAP-R. [/quote]

But that’s what I am telling you. He did. Report card is straight A’s and the map r was above 85th so there must be a different cut off for our w feeder school.  
It will be helpful if people can post the mapr scores for qualifying students. It would take the guesswork out.[/quote]

MCPS is so weird about this. My straight A student with 99th percentile MAP scores was not identified as GT last year bc of “district assessments”. She got 4s in reading and math and you need 5s? I still don’t understand it. A 4 is an A with standards-based grading. It seems like mcps enjoys making things intentionally vague. She was not even entered in the lottery pool this year. I suppose she’ll once again barely miss GT designation… ugh. [/quote]

Why wasn’t she entered in the lottery pool if she has 99th percentile? Mine had 97th in the fall but after mcps did their magic on him his score fell and is below the 95th percentile threshold now and hence he is not eligible for lottery or enrichment. Mcps enriched him so much between fall and winter, that he doesn’t need enrichment anymore.. way to go mcps![/quote]

It sounds like you are mixing up GT Identification in 2nd grade and the central review for the lottery in 3rd grade.  The way I understand it,  GT Identification is a label, but not a program.  Kids with the label could need enrichment in different areas and might get it in different ways (or not at all it seems in many cases).  The central review for the lottery is for a program - CES if you win the lottery and ELC if you are in the wait pool or decide not to go to CES.

The threshold for 3rd grade is the 85th percentile, but locally normed, which we parents never see.  It was easy to find out though, just use the email on the letter and ask what it was for your kid.[/quote]

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