Reply to Principal and home teacher's affect on GT admission

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Principal and home teacher's affect on GT admission"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had heard from reliable sources that in my dc's home school, the recommendation was a "panel recommendation".  I will not identify the school - because different schools do it differently, and I do not want to get into a flaming war here.

Once the students qualified the admissions exam, their files were evaluated by the principal, all the 2nd and 3rd grade teachers as well as the counselors.  They also looked at the various scores of the student (MSA, Terranova, Raven) from the 2nd grade onwards.  I thought this was a fair way of doing things.

This particular school is known for sending large number of their students to HGC.  They do not hold back bright kids because their own MSA scores will suffer - mainly because they offer quite a bit of enrichment in school anyways.

Neither do they use HGC as a place to send their extremely bright students with behavioural issues. They actually evaluate which student is a good fit for HGC.

BTW - it is not a school in the "W" cluster... in a very affordable part of MoCo, and it is a great gem of a school.  [/quote]

I am a teacher and this is what happens at my school. [/quote]

So at your school the teachers do not make recommendations until after the students take the HGC test?  That timing does't make sense [/quote]

I am the pp who wrote about this school.  I may be mistaken about [b]the timing of when the recommendations are made[/b] (when you are applying or when they qualify),  but I am not mistaken about the panel decision. Keep in mind also that this was 2 years back - my kid is in 5th grade HGC now.  [/quote]

I also have a 5th grader.  At our school (also non-W, great school) the decisions were made as a group but it was before testing.  I was surprised how soon it was after we submitted the application, in part because it was a new school and so early in the year.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics