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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a one-week before the cut-off DD, who we did not enroll to start as a just-turned-5 year old.  She was, and is, very academically advanced, but at age just 5 still had a lot of separation anxiety and clicked with very few kids.  (Tolerated kids well generally, but friends needed to be actual friends from a younger age).  We made the right choice for her.  She really started to blossom in 2nd grade.  Yes, she was very bored at times, but now she has been identified as GT and is with her people.  Turns out the preschool friends were GT, too.  She has always been gravitating to the same type.

We did a transitional K program at a different school when some of her older preschool friends went off to K.  That worked out to be a terrific year.[/quote]
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If you are a year older than other kids, its very easy to be identified as gifted.[/b]  About 40% of the kids at MCPS are identified in 3rd for gifted and test but there are very few slots so an easy way to get into the gifted program is to hold back a year, but why not send on time and then they will be challenged better being a year ahead.  My kid who we sent early was identified as gifted.  The gifted school was too far away so we had to turn it down.  [/quote]

First of all - that isn't true.  Second, tests are age-normed.  [/quote]

PP with the August Daughter - above poster is correct.  DD had to get more questions correct than younger peers (they do this by birth month & year) to achieve same score.[/quote]

Are you sure about that?  My child took the gifted test and said two kids got extra time and two finished at about the same time.  He's the youngest so it doesn't make sense and I know the other kids don't have IEP's SN.  The tests are supposed to adjust by how the questions are answered and number of correct questions, not by birthday.[/quote]

You would have to look into how they compute the SAS (standard age score) for the CogAT to understand how the test is Age-Normed. The amount of time given to a child to complete a section should be standard, and how the test is administered in a specific classroom is another matter.  IEP/504 kids allotted extra time are usually separated out in order to smooth test administration for everyone.   [/quote]

+1 Also, to the PP. You almost certainly don't KNOW that other kids don't have IEPs unless you have at some point asked their parents if they have IEPs. But, this isn't about time. It is about age norming. [/quote]

I do know as the principal, teacher and several others told me my child was the only one in the class with an IEP.  We refused one classroom where they put all the kids with IEP's regardless of needs.[/quote]

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