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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rising 4th grader - will be starting HGC.

Home school sent the report card. All P's , No I's or N's.  1 ES.

99 percentile in MAP (s), High achiever in JHU-CTY.  Off the chart in Raven and InView in 2nd grade, recommended for compacted 4/5 math...

...and I am left with a report card which is like 80% of other 3rd grader.  Why even bother sending out this report card?[/quote]

But what more do you want from the report card that you don't already have? [b]You have lots of data about your child's cognitive ability and achievement through other sources.[/b] Your child is not losing out on differentiation because many others have a similar report card if s/he is got admitted to a HGC and is recommended for compacted math. So, what would a different report get you that you don't already have?[/quote]

How is the achievement in MAP not reflected in the Math and English scores in the report card? How come a kid who is reading way above grade level as well as doing so well in math that he is at a 99 percentile rank - just proficient?  I would accept the P if most of DC's classmate also scored similarly in the MAP. 
Why is there such a reluctance to give ES to students and give everyone a P ?

As for JHU-CTY. It is a private source for which I paid money. Can all MCPS parents afford that? DC never takes any classes that CTY offers, but  always takes the test because it is a non-MCPS source which allows us to gauge somewhat where DC stands in regard to other kids.

I do have data for my DC from other sources - but I shouldn't be trying to collect data from all these disparate sources and trying to get a sense of where the strengths and weaknesses of my DC lies.

Let me know - "Your child needs to work on punctuation as well as division facts.  He/she is not yet proficient in the multiplication table for 7, 8 and 12."

What does "P" mean?  Is it a 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% proficiency?

BTW - Teachers write recommendations for HGC only after the kids have passed the 3 sections of the HGC admissions test.  They do not write the recommendation in isolation - a whole team sits down and goes through the data they have on the student - inview, Raven,  etc... These recommendations can be challenged by parents and so they make sure that their recommendations also have some basis in the data they have.  Yes, it is subjective too, but most of the kids who are applying for the HGC and doing well in school/admissions tests are not problem children that will make the teachers write a negative evaluation for them.

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