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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the deciding factors is also listed as "the presence of an intellectual peer group of highly able students at the home school".  What is the interpretation of this?  [/quote]

I thought that was really weird. So potentially -- if there are a bunch of very smart kids at the home school, they should all stay there because they have each other (not that they will get put into advanced classes or anything....) but if there's only one or two very smart kids, they should get to go to the Center? It's hard to interpret.[/quote]

I think that's considered part of being able to meet the child's needs at the home school.  The presentations about the HGC in the fall mentioned this, I believe.  Makes sense in some ways -- with limited space, the kid who is more of an outlier at their home school needs the center more.  I don't have a problem with that, although it would probably be a better solution to have enough gifted spots for all kids who met a certain benchmark.

[quote=Anonymous]The selection committee considered a number of factors when making its decision such as: parent recommendation, school recommendation, academic progress based on report cards from Grade 2 and the first semester of Grade 3, student performance on the [MAP-R], current school attended to determine the presence of an intellectual peer group of other highly able students, special services, and student performance on the CPHG assessment that was administered in January. . .[/quote]
The letter from the pilot program area was slightly different, mentioning a brief non-scored student questionnaire instead of parent or school recommendations, report card from grade 3 only, and mentioning standardized tests such as both MAP-M and MAP-R. The other factors were the same. [/quote]

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