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That left a whole bunch of kids with test scores high enough to qualify them for in school gifted services.  However, those services could be just about anything.  One year, for example, it was a weekly 45 minute lesson with the GT teacher in a trailer.  There were only about 4 or 5 students that would go, and they would do all kinds of cool things, from experiments to writing activities, but not a single thing they did was not something that any good student would have enjoyed if they could have had a small class with 4-5 students for an hour a week.  Remember, the test scores are on a sliding scale, and the cutoff is kind of arbitrary.  So who's to say that the kid sitting in the classroom who missed the service by one point could not benefit?  I mean, honestly, what normal kid does not benefit from a very small class with open-ended and challenging activities?  But not all kids can have that.  Small classes are reserved for the very low and the very high, because that's all that the school system can really afford.

So, while there may be evidence that some kids are truly gifted and need a different learning environment, many gt kids are just good students with pushy parents, and many non-gt students are just kids who missed the score by a few points.  At least, that's how it is in some schools.  Does that explain it?[/quote]

I meant to say...not  single thing any good student would NOT have enjoyed[/quote]

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