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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 2nd grader's said the Math district assessment score was missing, but he did meet the math cutoff for MAP. Not ELA though. where do we find this math district assessment? I didn't see it on the parent portal. Doesn't matter since we wouldn't pursue GT even if he did make it--just nice to know if he can get some enriched math instruction at school. [/quote]

MCPS has no differential process for those missing info other than reevaluating the student at the next planned cycle (end of 3rd grade in your case).  If they are missing data then, too, they bump it down the road again.

The paradigm of hitting all 4 academic marks (map-m, map-r/-rf, math assesment & english language assessment) or 3 of the 4 plus one of the advocacy measures (parent, teacher or staff) does not shift if one of the academic marks is unavailable, so if the kid hit 2 of 3 available and would have hit the 4th but for it's not being available (they aren't even administered for some), they won't be identified as GT even with parent/teacher/staff advocacy.[/quote]

NP here, this is what we are trying to figure out for our second grader.  She meets 2 of the 3 academic marks and 2 advocacy measures, but is missing the ELA assessment. I don't know why.  Other kids in her class had a score.  The teacher doesn't know and referred me to the GT contacts at the school and the main mcps provided GT email.  The GT contacts at the school were basically like you can email the main email and she will be rescreened.  I just don't understand what all this means exactly. Is she missing out on enrichment in the third grade because of this missing score?  She missed the DIBELS winter cut off just barely and would have blown by it with her spring score.  I found the one pager in the mail and the 11 pager explainer really confusing.  We've gotten no response yet from the main mcps GT email.[/quote]
Unless the paradigm has changed (and it hasn't, to my understanding), your child will not be marked as GT for next year, but will be rescreened (largely with the same/similar criteria) next year (happens in 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 8th, I believe, and no rescreenings are necessary once designated).  They won't consider 2 out of 3 instead of 3 out of 4 if the 4th isn't available.

You can ask your school to treat her [i]as though[/i] she had gotten the designation until rescreening.  This was supposed to happen for a school where a whole cohort had missing data, but it didn't really work out that way...[/quote]

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