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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your racial/ethnic background?

What was the racial/ethnic breakdown of the kids you sent vs. the kids in your class?

What work have you done to unpack implicit bias? [/quote]

DP. Similar questions were going through my head. I was wondering whether the two kids referenced above with 140+ cogat but received low GBRS from the teacher [b]were Asian American[/b] or immigrant kids.

Just doesn't make sense to me that a kid with 140+ cogat who is otherwise getting 4s on the report card would get a 4 GBRS rating. [/quote]

OP said:"Neither ever did anything to evidence advanced abilities but were able to get 4s in subject matter (except for writing) because they studied and could regurgitate what was needed to do well on math, social studies, and science tests. Neither ever contributed to class discussions."

They almost certainly were.  OP's comments perfectly fit the "Asian prep robot" trope, where she assumes that the kids who are getting 4s in everything and had exceptionally high test scores aren't really gifted, but instead simply studied and regurgitated.  I bet most of the kids with lower test scores that OP pushed in were white.  [/quote]

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