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[quote=Anonymous]Some teachers are going to be fabulous at identifying giftedness.  Others might be:
-young and inexperienced (which is honestly about half of FCPS 2nd grade teachers)
-biased toward high executive function rather than aptitude
-racist/sexist
-spending almost no time with your child.  Ex. class is 25 kids.  Highest reading group only sees the teacher once per week for 15 minutes during language arts block.  Kid has a different teacher for math and has other pull outs with the reading specialist and AART.

This is all assuming that the old GBRS and current HOPE forms are even asking for the teachers to "identify giftedness," rather than asking if the child is displaying specific traits.  A teacher could 100% recognize that a child is highly gifted and then accurately fill out a HOPE form with a bunch of low ratings.  The HOPE form isn't designed to "identify giftedness."  It's supposed to be used to detect kids with potential who may not have earned high test scores for whatever reason.

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