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[quote=Anonymous]I'm PP at 18:46  
"I know that you don't need to be labeled as being in the GT group to get services. You can pretty much ask and they will give"

My DC is a preschooler and will soon be in K.  In starting to research MCPS and the state of affairs at our local school, I have gotten exactly the opposite impression from what you posted above.  My impression is that in SOME schools - if you are lucky enough to have a principal and teachers who believe in it - there is an effort made to provide above grade level kids the services/work they need to actually advance at their own pace.  But this seems to not be the norm everywhere and at my red zone school w/ HUGE rates of ESOL and FARMS kids, I'm quite worried about a policy that just leaves such important decisions up to the whim of those running a given school.

I'm looking to organize w/ others that want to see ability grouping and acceleration required in a systemic way so that parents are not left on their own to try to persuade a principal/teacher to do this.  
GTA seems committted to that goal, so I'm inclined to join with them.  And no, I don't care about the label at all - I care about the fact that MCPS has a policy on the books for kids classified as GT that would seem to cover the issues I'm concerned about so long as they actually implement it.  If they come up w/ some new policy for people to try to push in an organized fashion for adoption that focuses broadly speaking at above grade level kids w/o labeling them in any way, then fine but that seems even less likely to happen.  One thing at a time...[/quote]

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