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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They are trying to keep accelerated education in MCPS local schools alive (this is extremely urgent) without having a bias that only Highly Gifted need accelerated education. "

This was my impression too.  Also my impression that they are not so hung up on getting to call their kid "GT" as much as ensuring that their above grade level kids are getting the focused teaching they need for where they are at.  I imagine this is a much much bigger deal for those on the Eastern side (where I live) and perhaps some of the people mystified by the sense of urgency by GTA live on the west where this is not such a problem since most of the class is at least at grade level so there are not such huge differences in most classes or at least the bulk of the kids in most classes are at/above grade level rather than below it.[/quote]

Your impression is similar to mine. If people do their independent research about GTA instead of listening to biased comments, they will probably understand the organization better. However, again the organization should not be the main focus, the issues should be. Acceleration in loacl school is not a eastern side problem. I am from the western part of the county, but I see kids in my area suffer due to lack of homogeneous grouping, and focus on acceleration. Read the comments by various parents from various zipcode on GT forum and you will see the issue is universal. 
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