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Actually I think "gifted" is just a word thrown around primarily in the US, where schools are less likely to put higher performing kids into a higher grade, and therefore they have created special gifted programs for those smart kids. In my home country, they put me into the class a year above my age group, because I guess they thought I was "brainy"- our term for gifted.[/quote]

What percent of kids were placed into a higher grade?  Gifted is the top 1-2% of the population.  If your home country only skipped 1-2% of the children, then those kids probably were gifted.

In FCPS, at least, it seems to work like this:
-Kid scores a 132 CogAT or NNAT, and performs like a regular smart kid in school.  Parents are convinced kid is gifted, even though CogAT is not an IQ test and doesn't necessarily imply a gifted IQ.
-Kid scores below a 132 CogAT and performs like a regular smart kid in school.  Parents are convinced that the kid is a poor test taker, but still gifted.  
-Kid is prepped and receives a high score on CogAT or even WISC.  Parents convince themselves that the prep didn't matter, and the kid is gifted.
-Parents are motivated to get kid into AAP and enrich the heck out of the kid.  Kid is advanced in school due to the enrichment, gets a high GBRS, and gets into AAP.  Parents are convinced kid is gifted.
-Kid is pretty average in every way, but parents somehow think that the normal kid insights are profound and out of the ordinary.  Parents are convinced kid is gifted.
-Kid scores in gifted range on only one test, but based on other tests and classroom performance, the gifted test seems to be a one-off.  Parents are convinced kid is gifted.

Very few kids in FCPS take IQ tests, so very few parents officially "know" that their kids are gifted.  Most are just assuming.  [/quote]

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