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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ And maybe some rich families do.  But most of us are not members of the 1%, most of us do not spend money on those things.  If you want to obsess on what 1% of the population does and use that as a means of denying the remaining 99% of the population an opportunity then I think your priorities are out of whack.

(And by the way, tutoring, camps and test prep won't boost anyone's IQ score that significantly.  Sorry, IQ tests don't work that way.  Camps and test prep won't ever turn little Jeremy or Madison into an Einstein.  So so what if they throw their money at those things?  And, let's not forget that the rich for the most part don't bother with DCPS schools anyways - they move to the burbs, go private, or if they get lucky enough to get in, they go charter)[/quote]

For the umpteenth time most gifted programs do not use iq tests for screening. [/quote]

That's not true - a vast number of programs across the country do indeed use IQ tests or some other form of broad-based quantitative assessment.  If they aren't, then they are probably flawed and likely to be gamed by someone who could simply do some test prep or be skewed by unobjective biases in the system (such as grades and teacher recommendations).  And by broad-based quantitative assessment, that means it should objectively and quantitatively examine capability across a wide range of factors, like working memory, patterns, logical reasoning and critical thinking, spatial intelligence, and many other types of aspects and intelligences.  It should *never* simply be culturally or knowledge based, as in "do you know what this term means". [/quote]

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