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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my kids taught for several years in several APS elementary schools.  They now teach high school.  They say there’s a huge and unfair discrepancy in gifted designations depending on the race and income level of the kid.  It’s pretty disgusting. [/quote]

Can you explain this a bit more? I’m not trying to be snarky, but if the rich white kids happen to get higher grades on the standardized tests, then how else should they designate who is gifted besides the test scores? [/quote]

Standardized tests are known to be racist and classist. A lot of the questions assume a certain lived experience that exposed kids to a vocabulary and life style that informs their vocabulary and ability to make inferences. A 3rd grader from a poor, immigrant family for example may not be familiar with the vegetable eggplant or staying at a hotel on vacation. They may then fail a reading comprehension assessment, not because they can’t read, but because those topics are foreign to them. And yes. A lot of kids (17-30%) are identified as gifted because it’s an affluent area and a lot of kids have educ[/quote]

So then it's more a systemic issue that you have with the identification of "gifted" kids and not necessarily APS, who is just a part of that existing system.  [/quote]

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