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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While it might skew high-SES, [b]there will also be plenty of low-SES kids who can and will make the cut[/b].  So why deny the low-SES kids the opportunity also?  Seems like cutting your own nose off to spite your face.

And also, how would a test in school get a bigger slice?  There's no inherent greater cost in running a test-in school - and in fact potentially LESS as the test-in group will probably also have less overhead in terms of disciplinary issues, special needs, et cetera - the areas that do rack up significant costs.
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But what if there weren't?  Do you think the powers that be in DC would let this happen?  DC has the largest black/white performance gap of any place in the nation based on many different tests.  Any reasonably difficult test would skew very heavily white.[/quote]

Yes, it would obviously skew white, but not necessarily very heavily if best GT practices, e.g. from MoCo, were adopted.  You need screening of gifted and advanced kids at the ES level, and strong support for them in the upper elementary grades, to keep MS test ins from being overwhelmingly high SES/white.  My nanny's kid was passed over for a MoCo MS test-in magnet, although he was in an ES GT from for the "highly gifted" because he didn't do well enough on the RAVEN admission test the county uses.  After she appealed the decision through a standard appeals process, collecting recommendations from teachers as part of the appeal, he was admitted over the summer before 6th grade.  MoCo even paired the kid with a foundation that paid for him to attend a Johns Hopkins CTY camp for math that summer.  Well-designed GT programs (I'm not including NYC's here) never offer just one route in.  You need comprehensive support for gifted low SES kids, e.g. that provided by NYC's Prep for Prep non profit, to identify and nurture low SES talent well before HS.  [/quote]

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