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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I disagree with the approach here.  TO me, late is late--I would and will (vigorously) object if this happens.  My son is in the pool and we're talking about kids who didn't score high enough on the standardized tests--nationally recognized benchmarks for GT success; afterall, the vast majority of kids with cut-off score make it, the opposite is true for those that don't.  I would think these parents, if they felt so strongly about applying and that the tests don't fully measure their child's potential, would have filled out the 1 page form weeks ago. It seems like we're making excuse for the exception and not for those the program is intended.[/quote]

Wow.  So if a student is not feeling well, or doesn't do well in a group test environment, but does beautifully on a comparable standardized test (also a nationally recognized benchmark for GT success) one-on-one with a licensed psychologist -- then that student should be excluded from consideration?

Wow.  All I can say is wow.  I'm so glad that FCPS doesn't use your rubric for GT Center-eligibility. [/quote]

I'm sure the committee is alert to someone hiring a pyschologist to come up with a report that, surprise, who has a really high score.  I'll bet this happens a lot. Hiring an expert, paid by the parents, lessens the value of these scores.  Why would kid magically do better on one test than on two administered under the same coniditions for all kids--gee, why don't colleges allow private SATs??  The COGAT has 3 parts and is administered on 3 different days--so the kid all these days?

The County should limit extra testing to only GMU.[/quote]

Since we are assuming that private psychologists can be bought, we should also assume that there are some aggressive pushy parents can find a "rotten apple"  FCPS teacher and buy her/him too.  we got our child tested because he came just short of the cogat/nnat scores.  given his excellent grades and an expected good gbrs we were not relying on the private wisc only.  parents who believe that the one good cogat score will be the ticket to gt should read the selection process.  no point trying to disqualify others based on scores or anything else.  worry about your own kid.

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