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Are you saying that the local screening committee (at the school) submitted a lower GBRS than what the classroom teacher had recommended?[/quote]

Yes. 
They had a discussion and they came up with the numbers. They include (principal, asst principal, (who donno my kid) AART (who meets with her once a week for 45 minutes) and the advanced Math teacher was not even on the committee (who my DC meets with everyday) [/quote]

I would think that this could be mentioned in an appeal letter or at Gatehouse. It certainly seems that the teacher, who spends the most time with your DC, would have the best opportunity to observe gifted behaviors for the GBRS. And it doesn't seem right that the advanced math teacher would not have been on the committee. I hope that you are able to get some good answers and appropriate placement for your DC. [/quote]

This is normal practice.  It is, in fact, done so that one person does not have total say in coming up with the gbrs.  As you know, there are lots of complaints by parents who say that DC's teacher does not like him/her and gave a bad gbrs, blah blah blah.  My understanding is that the teacher comes up with the gbrs first and then the group discusses and the gbrs gets moved up or down.  If no one else can corroborate the "4" that the teacher gives then the "4" may get reduced to a "3" and so on.  This happened with my DC and she got one point reduced in every section for a total of 4 points.  But again, the flip side of that is, it controls the possible partiality/favoritism that could exist if you had just the class teacher doing whatever she wanted.[/quote]

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