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It seems INSANE to me that TAG students have to go through a lottery.  No, if you score high enough for TAG, you shouldn't have to go through a lottery on top of that.  It's ridiculous.  Those students who are TAG identified but don't win the lottery end up being put in private school.  This has to be evident to the school board and administrators (unless they're incompetent, which could be the case given so few of them even have a strong educational background).

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I hear you, but I don't think this is *entirely* the case. TAG-ID'd kids get services. In some schools it is a pull-out program, in some schools it is incorporated into the classroom work. And then there's the magnet lottery. Now I won't argue that the pull-out is equal to the magnet, nor will I argue that the TAG services are universally terrific in every school, but the services were there and the TAG teacher at our neighborhood school was terrific. We would have stayed if we had not gotten a magnet spot and would not have done private. [/quote]

The problem (as another poster pointed out) is that in some schools, it's only a few kids that are TAG identified.  So the pull-out program actually only socially isolates them and doesn't help because they don't have enough peers in the program.

Perhaps there could be some kind of system where if the TAG numbers in a school are lower than a certain threshold, those kids then get to join the TAG program at another school (not necessarily a TAG magnet).  But it isn't really a genuine TAG "program" if it's like 3 kids being pulled out of class an hour here or an hour there.

Once they set the parameters for what makes a kid TAG, they should ensure that all of the TAG identified kids actually get to be part of a full TAG program.[/quote]

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