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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More ridiculousness from the School Board sure to be soon on display.

How great FCPS will be when they find completely arbitrary ways to recognize the giftedness of an additional 10% of the white kids and 25% of the black and Hispanic kids...or maybe the academic program for the other 60% will just be even more of a joke...[/quote]

There have been accusations on this forum that schools are deliberately hoarding their gifted URM students so they will receive better equity scores.  It is plausible that schools would give much lower GBRS scores to URMs, either because they want to keep them at the base school or because teachers are biased enough that they aren't recognizing giftedness in minorities.  I'm not a fan of the idea of lowering score requirements for URMs, but I think the committee should be taking a long look at any URM kids who have CogAT or NNAT above 125, above grade level DRA, generally high achievement, but then get low GBRS and/or have terrible school supplied work samples.  [/quote]

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