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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi all. If SG from the GT forum is on here, thanks for your posts. I just saw the discussion - I read it all the way through for once! - and saw your posts. You're right, I'm never post there because I'm afraid I'll be deliberately misunderstood (JS' response to your post) or have my head ripped off for some other reason, so that in the end any point I try to make would be lost in more sturm und drang.

Plus the description of the label issues here was very useful (yours?) because who has the time or patience to read through 2 months of bickering to figure out what are the key issues and who's advocating for what and why....

No, I'm not an MCPS plant like s/o said over there. Geez!  I'll say it loud and clear: I think they do a cr@ppy job for the 90th pctile kids. Happy, JS?[/quote]

I am the PP who has been posting in DCUM about label issues. I am not SG, but I know who she is. I do not post to the other forum since there are too many people with too many different agenda. So, you do not know me. Unfortunately the vocal people give a bad reputation to the forum and the advocacy. Does not mean evryone should stop advocating for advanced learners. We need to organize beyond personal differences. [/quote]

EB? Hon, we need to organize but not with an organization that ain't done nothin' yet.  Many voices on their own expressing the truth are far more powerful than having the GTA expressing our views for us.  Where does the GTA stand about the label?  Do you think it is right to call anyone who can read above the MCPS grade level gifted?  You folks say that MCPS standards are low.  Then if you are just above-MCPS grade it means you are probably on level, right?

Where can I find the stuff about your meetings so that I can see what you've done?  What do you do with the $15 membership fee?  What are the GTA bylaws ... you know like my child's PTA has?  Let us hear more about the GTA before you try to pull us in.[/quote]

Who is EB? I think I can guess, but I am not her either. Let me clarify again. I am not active in the forum, and I am not part of GTA.  You will not be able to guess my identity.

Many voices on their own cannot create a ripple in the cesspool called MCPS. BTW, your voice in this post is condescending and it does not earn you any point in the debate.

GTA did not create the label, MCPS did. All GTA is asking MCPS is to provide services for kids identified as “gifted”. I do not think their view on this would have been any different if MCPS identified these kids as “foo bar” except maybe they would be called “Foo Bar Association” ?  If you want to organize something, which will label each level of learners specifically, go for it. But I agree with the GTA’s view (I am assuming this from what I have seen so far) that until that happens, “gifted” is the only label available for all kids above grade level. I will not submit myself to the propaganda that someone started to divide the parents of the advanced level learners so that they keep fighting about specificity of the label, while the other side abolishes all traces of accelerated education in MCPS.

I do not care so much about past performance of GTA right now, as much as their positions in the current issues. I agree with their position on “Challenge Every Child”. If in future I do not agree with something they support I will voice my opinion too.
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I am not sure I understand what the label stuff is about.  Why do we need to label each level of learners?  I thought the law required identifying GT only?  What is the GTA position about what GT means?

I just don't want to get into name calling ... so please excuse me if I don't go there.  What does the GTA consider to be GT?  Above 50th percentile? 70th? 90th?  I think the question the poster asked about bylaws is also good.  Do you know where I can find them?  Just trying to know more about an organization you know a lot about.  [/quote]

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