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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gifted and talented as measured by what? What instrument do people use to measure if a child is "gifted"? Test scores? Zip code? SES? Until someone devises a universal, unbiased way in which to test for academic talent I believe the terms gifted and talented will always generally apply to those in which the instruments favor.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” 
? Albert Einstein[/quote]

MoCo bases it on teacher recommendations, grades, a demonstrated passion in the magnet subject, and the scores given to a big IQ test that looks a lot like the SAT and is administered to hundreds of kids on the same Saturday in December.  The December MCPS test is like an IQ test, but it's developed specifically for MCPS to spread out the kids at the upper tail of the spectrum.  The process is surprisingly transparent, at least compared to the hideous Big-3 application process we went through -- DC got into one of them, but we hated the whole private school application schtick which did seem based in part on SES.

My big criticism of the process is that MCPS doesn't give enough resources to the magnets, and it doesn't seem committed to them, so that lots of qualified kids are rejected or stuck in wait pool purgatory. Also, even though MCPS campaigns a lot in low-SES schools to attract magnet applicants, they admit they haven't been as successful as they like. [/quote]

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