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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gifted identification means absolutely nothing and doesn’t even accurately line up to future success in high school or college, much less life.

My son is on track to be valedictorian at his private HS this year (they only have 1) and he was not labeled until the last month in 8th grade in APS even though he was on his way out the door and he scored very high in all testing, CogaT, inventories, etc. and was a very well behaved kid in class. He was always a straight A student and never needed our help or a tutors help.  I never even checked his assignments or even knew what they were by 5th grade.  He was all self-sufficient and self-motivated.  I had never been in Canvas or parentvue.

My husband scored a perfect 1600 on his SATs back in 1990 and was never gifted id.  It’s a joke.  He had all 5 on AP exams too.

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What it means in APS is that the school has to offer your kid extension work. For my 5th grade daughter’s class how this plays out is that certain kids (“extension group”) are expected/required to do additional and/or higher level work in all academic areas, most or all days. Projects are more detailed, assigned books are higher level, etc. General Ed kids can be offered some of these things as well, but it’s not required.

I don’t care if identification is otherwise meaningless. My daughter is extending herself on a regular basis, and that’s all I want out of Gifted Services.  I’m not looking for some guarantee of future success- that would be ridiculous. [/quote]

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