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There is excellent data showing that most of the children placed in AAP or gifted programs revert to norm on the IQ scale by the time they graduate high school. The vast majority of kids, those without pushy parents, are suffering as the best teachers and resources are skimmed off for these supposedly "exceptional" children. Remedial classes and gen ed have been combined to free up AP teachers.[/quote]

Anecdotally i believe kids do revert back.  Part of the issue to me is keeping kids engaged in school to develop into lifelong learners.  If they are not intellectually challenged appropriately early on, they may tune out.  This applies To every kind of
Learner.[/quote]

Anecdotally, I don't believe that truly gifted kids "revert back."  I think that bright but nowhere near gifted kids who are very mature and focused for their age will end up with artificially high scores on the NNAT and CogAT.  They're also more likely to impress the teachers by excelling at the "rote skills" (i.e. simple arithmetic, spelling, pretty handwriting).  So, they get placed into AAP.  Similarly bright or even brighter kids who are more immature or who have poor executive function will screw around or lose interest in the standardized test, thus scoring lower.  They're also less likely to impress the teacher and less likely to have advanced looking work samples.  Eventually, though, the maturity and executive function gap closes, and the raw intelligence matters more.

Just as an example, I know a lot of kids who were placed into advanced/AAP math as 2nd or 3rd graders who were excellent at following processes and memorizing math facts.  They scored very highly on the school's exams even without really having a great number sense or a real understanding of math.  Eventually, those kids struggled with advanced math and were surpassed by kids who struggled a bit more with the rote arithmetic but innately have much more "math intelligence."  [/quote]

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