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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few things that bother me here

1.  Fox Chapel teacher says "not every child performed above grade level".   How the heck can you be in a an advanced program and not at grade level?

2.  "Parents can no longer submit private evaluations attesting that their children are gifted".   That was never part of the application process that I was aware of.

3.   [b]I'm all for universal screening and more local programs but the instruction level needs to be similar to what was available at the magnets.   I have a child in a local CES and had one at an HGC a few years ago.  Believe me, it is nowhere close.  [/b] [/quote]

The population you get when you admit a whole class from one elementary school is different from the population you get when you admit a few students with high standardized-test scores from 15+ different elementary schools.[/quote]

Agreed. And it is for the better. More representative of how the County has gifted kids from many neighborhoods and socioeconomic backgrounds. Not to mention highly gifted students who move to MoCo too late to apply for a Center for ES. Look at how often the latter are going to private instead or families advised to move to VA.[/quote]

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