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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so we have established that get designation is meaningless. Now, what prompted mcps to change the criteria and use some random assessments? My current 4th grader in CES was identified as gifted and there was no such random assessments. But that could also be because of covid. But it was also prior to benchmark. Benchmark was implemented during covid shutdown when my current 4th grader was in 2nd grade.
Is the new criteria to reduce the number of kids identified as gifted? 
I also genuinely wonder how the kids did on these assessments which were used in the gut identification process as the current 2nd graders had no experience taking assessments prior to 2nd grade because of online school. In 1st grade the benchmark assessments were online. They were a pain for my kid because it was online , it was difficult for him to scroll up and down to reread the passages and look for answers on the screen. The benchmark assessments scores were rarely shared with the parents. Maybe it’s just my kid who had a hard time doing online school last year. But my current 2nd grader is definitely way more clever, smarter or ‘gifted’ than my current 4th grader identified as gifted and now in CES. So this is super confusing for us.[/quote]

So many questions, such little transparency. I really don’t think mcps could make this more confusing if they tried. We have a bunch of seemingly bright and involved parents who are all utterly confused and communications that are contradictory. And testing that is clearly flawed if numerous highly able students are not performing up to their typical level. After a year of virtual for very young learners. And they toss this at parents the week before summer, even though the test was in Q2? My goodness. [/quote]

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