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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid who scored pretty low and he is not super smart. Bright-average. His older siblings both went to the center and our base school is almost Title 1 and has very little to offer academics-wise. I was happy to get him in but yeah, he definitely doesn't need to be there. We referred and hoped for the best. Oh, we got a WISC and didn't use it because it was lower than his COGAT and NNAT scores. [/quote]

We had a similar experience.  I’ve said this before, but I suspect the committee recognizes that Title I schools are less able to meet the needs of even bright-average kids and, as a result, applies less stringent admissions standards to students from those schools.[/quote]

Interesting.  I'm one of the people who has been complaining that my kid's center has been watered down by too many above average kids, and my gifted kid is not being challenged at all.  The feeders to the center are mostly Title I schools.  Also, at my base school (Title I), around 30 kids per year are identified as Level IV, and only 5 or 6 after that are identified as LIII out of around 140 kids per grade.  Statistically, this suggests that the majority of the kids who ought to be LIII are being identified as LIV at this Title I school.  [/quote]

I also should add that I don't at all blame parents for pushing their bright average kids into the program when the LII and LIII services are inadequate.  Fixing LII and LIII needs to happen before they can alter the LIV admission process.  [/quote]

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