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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?  
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If MCPS ever provides many levels of identification for academic readiness  to cater specific services for each level instead of services for each age group, it may be ideal. I do not believe it will happen in my life time and I am fairly young :) However at this point there MCPS identifies children as “gifted and talented” in grade 2.  I believe GTA uses that identification to advocate for services. However, they do not advocate only for average learners as some people will like everyone to believe. They are advocating for all advanced learners whether they are at 60th%tile, or 90th%tile. Some people might want GTA to fight to provide “GT” its commonly accepted meaning instead of talking in MCPS’s lingo of GT kids . But GTA probably has limited resources and would like to focus on one advocacy at a time, the current advocacy is to get accelerated services back to neighborhood schools.

[quote]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]

If you did not engage in name calling, you do not have to worry about it. When people run out of actual argument, they resort to name-calling. It reminds me of my discussion the other day with DC about the concept of “ad hominem”.
Like I mentioned before GTA uses the same meaning for GT as MCPS. MCPS, BTW, does not say what GT standard is whether it is 50th %tile or 90th %tile, we would never know. Yes, the bylaw question is good. I would love to learn about GTA a lot more, but at this time I am more concerned about what they support case to case basis.
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