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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I was surprised when they told us we should basically embellish his score with our observations in applying for app. I mean I would have though 99 percentile was an automatic in. Apparently a lot of parents push really hard for their marginal kids to get in.[/quote]

The Gifted and Talented program IS NOT about servicing the top 2 or 3 percent of students IQ wise or by any other such lofty criteria!  I really wish that folks out there posting to the GT threads would quit harping about how the so called “marginal” students are getting pushed into the program by over aggressive parents.

Look at the numbers, about 12% of the total 2nd grade student population get into the GT program each year.  There are thousands of students in the program and they are not going all going to be helping Johny-super-genius (who scored 99% on the COGAT) to solve the unified field theory but they may learn reading-writing-math faster by being in a class room of 30 other kids, who are bright students and learning oriented instead of stuck in the general population with the not quite so bright student who may never care about learning and might be more interested in being a bully, etc.

What parent who has a above average (not-super-genius) child would not want their child in the GT program? Those lame posts about not extending the submission deadline to give the marginal students a better chance to get in because of the worse snow storm in history, etc. are betting really tiring.
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