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If this is true (our PTA meeting was cancelled yesterday so I didn't get any update), I whole-heartedly disagree with it for the following reasons:

1. Many teachers are not that great at identifying gifted children, and the current application already places what I believe to be disproportionate weight on the teacher recommendation checklist. I know, because my child is gifted per his IQ, reading level and interests, he is in a middle school gifted program, and he was never recognized as gifted in elementary school. He had a very difficult few years in elementary school due to lack of encouragement and challenge.

2. I am horrified that a center for GIFTED students should select for criteria other than intellectual ability. I couldn't care less that some groups are over or under represented or whether the genders are balanced. This is not what it's about. "Closing the gap" in public schools is controversial and problematic enough, but extending that to special programs catering to children who cannot be adequately taught in general education classrooms is patently unfair to the population they are supposedly attempting to serve.

I'm disgusted.
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