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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a fall birthday child. We paid for private for 2 years and transferred child in at 2nd when they don't look at age. Problem solved. Its amazing the age range in our classroom. Its really an unfair advantage if a child a year-18 months gets 99% test scores while mine gets in the mid 90's so she misses the gifted programs and they get in and the true difference is age. [b]Testing and other things should be age normed.[/b] If I held my child back they'd be in gifted and 99% but I prefer to have them age appropriate.[/quote] Testing for the gifted program in FCPS is age-normed, likely in other districts (the tests are age-normed). The reason that gifted programs can skew younger is that parents are less likely to redshirt a gifted child, even if they're immature, because they want the academic challenge for the child. [/quote]
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