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It's like this: The point of a "GT" program is to identify kids who are gifted. Those who learn differently, not just those who have been exposed to more material by the same age. I'm not a fan of the "cram school" accusations on this thread, because they reek of racist dog whistles, but even without those dog whistles, MCPS is not in the business (nor should they be) of getting into an arms race with parents, in which parents rush to expose kids to more and more material outside of school and school just picks up where RSM left off.

If MCPS truly wants to have a "gifted" program, they have to figure out how to identify kids who learn differently.

Now, in reality, any GT program is going to have a mix of truly gifted kids and just above average hard workers. But the previous system was leaving a lot of talent behind because it was set up in a way to be nearly inaccessible to certain communities. That's what MCPS is trying to address now, with some success.

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We’ll, they were, a couple years ago. But the recent lottery criteria leaned very heavily on grades and MAP scores, which actually favors kids who are getting some kind of outside enrichment. The COGAT is designed to identify ability, the MAP and grades identify learned content.

So kids in a school with well-behaved kids that get a lot of learning done are going to score a lot higher for a magnet than talented kids in a class that is barely getting through the day. Kids getting outside enrichment will also score a lot higher. [/quote]

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