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It honestly doesn’t.  Mine had a CogAT of 138.  She’s smart.  She’s not gifted.  She has a friend who had a perfect score on the NNAT.  Also not gifted. The gifted kids I know (handful) that have taken the CogAT scored in the 150s (without any prep).  You’d probably need to use IQ tests to identify most of them.
I have a friend elsewhere in the country, whose daughter was screened for gifted services after she was identified by her teachers.  They don’t have this sort of let’s give everyone an ability test and call it done approach, and since the screening test is an IQ test, is much more likely to actually identify giftedness.[/quote]
I agree!!  Have a program for the truly gifted. 
Let the rest of the kids opt in/out of aap.
Current cut offs capture bright kids, not gifted. Many bright children (including my own) benefit from parents who place emphasis on advancing their child through out of school exposures and a culture of learning.  This is likely most parents who come to this forum.  The truly exceptional kids are not the ones scoring a Cogat of 132. I do not know the truly gifted cut offs, but would agree with 150+.
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Also agree. It's funny that people with relatively bright kids want so desperately to be put into classrooms with the [i]truly gifted[/i] kids to get all the benefits of being surrounded by students of higher-caliber, but they don't want the modest general ed kids to be around their own kids!

Classism and segregation continues on well into this century...[/quote]

The way the system was designed was to give the "truly gifted" kids a cohort of kids to fill out the class.  As a parent of a "truly gifted" kid, I'm glad that he's able to have a cohort of 3 AAP classes that are switched up each year, rather than only being a single small class of  similarly truly gifted kids for 4 years.  [/quote]

In this case, they should stick with Centers and send only truly gifted kids to centers or do what most other school districts do and have one day or a half day every week dedicated to gifted and talented stuff.[/quote]

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