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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It makes no sense to me. My only kid who i felt was way more gifted than my other 2 who were designated gifted by mcps was found not gifted by mcps. I don’t know what’s going on. Based on some assessment on which he scored 4 but MAP was 99 percentile he did not meet the gifted criteria. Something is fishy here. What are these assessments? Is it because of a teacher shortage that they are doing this? Moreover, my kid has been above grade in reading throughout and yet it says his reading level is on grade level on the letter I received. It makes no sense. Someone is lying here..[/quote]

The assessments are the county-designated 2nd Quarter assessments in Benchmark and Eureka. Although I do not really know, I would not be surprised if MCPS did not tell teachers that they were using this particular assessment for G/T designation, so teachers did not know at the time they administered it that it counted for anything other than a grade in the class.  Very easily, it could be a situation in which a 4 is an A and 5 something extraordinary and most teachers do not use the 5.  In my experience line teachers are woefully uninformed about the G/T process and ramifications of their grading decisions.[/quote]

+ a million. I don’t have intel, but a similar thing happened to us with mcps. Maddening. [/quote]

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