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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Point taken - the tone was inappropriate. But you have to get off the moral high-horse. Self-interest has been the driving force behind this discussion; it is disservice to the proponents of meritocracy to cite that here. Once you have provided the right access to under-privileged kids you will have a different demographic in the GT program. There are many reasons why that cannot happen. So let us keep meritocracy out of this.

The parents on this thread are discussing whether a test score should override everything else in determining IQ. Meritocracy is external to this discussion thread. [/quote]

Utterly reasonable.  Thank you!

To those of you with "elite" children and who want to keep the lowly "referral" kids from dragging down the Center, do you actually think the Center is elite?  It's not.  Nobody thinks these kids are all in the top 1% or 2%.  It's more like top 15%.

And if you can make the argument that your kid in the pool with a 98th percentile score is vastly more intelligent than my referred kid with a 96th percentile score who missed the cutoff by a point or two, and that I'm pushing my kid where he doesn't belong, I'd really love to hear it.  And what if my kid has better grades, a stronger GBRS assessment from the school, more impressive work samples, and more amazing out-of-school accomplishments than your kid?  I supposed that all counts for nothing because you've got that test score in your pocket and that says it all, right?   (Interesting that every year they reject a fair number of these genius kids who tested into the pool, and they accept many of the referrals . . . .) [/quote]

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