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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"how do we end up with a situation where MoCo labels 40% of kids as being "GT"? "

well because you have a section of the county that is very homogenous in terms of most kids' skill level at their school.  Then you have the DCC area (where I live) where it's either very mixed or else it's the case that MOST of the schools' kids are not even at grade level.  So to be able to capture those kids in DCC areas who are above grade level I think you end up also including tons of kids from the more solidly middle/upper class schools.

Honestly I have no idea why some PPs on this thread seem anti-GTA (which I have only just discovered through this list serve a few weeks ago).  As someone else mentioned, they seem to be the only organized group worried about a huge problem facing many of us on the Eastern side at least which is the prospect of our child not getting an appropriate education just out of a philosophical belief some leaders apparently have in the county that makes them not like the fact that some children learn more quickly and/or start out further along than others.[/quote]

I don't think anyone is anti-GTA.  It is just that the organization doesn't seem to have a very transparent way of doing business.  It seems to be using GT to get their average kids labeled as GT.  Now I don't care one way or the other but it does mess up advocating for GT.  Anyway has anyone attended a meeting of the GTA?[/quote]

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