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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, for whatever reason they used the age normed, not the grade normed, which disadvantaged somewhat the kids with fall birthdays (and the red-shirted kids), and advantaged the younger kids in the grade.  Since it's an achievement test and not an IQ test, I think it was wildly inappropriate to use the age norms and not the grade norms, as you would not normally think a 5th grader should be compared to a 6th grader in achievement (unless you were prepping that kid outside of school).  
I don't care that much, as I didn't want my kid to go to one of those schools, but I just think it's an example of MCPS being sort of irrational about much of this.[/quote]

I suspect the "disadvantage" for fall birthdays was far less than for red-shirted kids, and that's fine. If you redshirt an early summer birthday, that 5th grader is 11.5 by November when the test is administered and could easily be more than a full year older than the youngest kid in the class. I hope that younger kid gets a slight advantage, and I say that as someone whose kids' birthdays fall right smack in the middle of spring.

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