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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP who said CES kids are "often" 99th percentile at 2-4 grades ahead:

1. There's no way the established evaluation criteria can capture that. The most you can see is that a kid is at the 99th percentile among kids his/her age. You can also see that the kid is reading ahead of grade level, but that doesn't firmly establish that the kid is 99th percentile at 2-4 grades ahead.

2. You don't understand exactly how rare it is for a kid to be performing at the top of the curve 2-4 grades ahead. That would mean a 4th grader would be able to test ahead of nearly all 8th graders. While such people exist, to say that's how to "often" describe CES kids falls into the typical DCUM trap of thinking gifted kids in this area are somehow lightyears ahead of anyone else. It's simply not true.[/quote]

Anecdata: Among the cohort selected from my child's ES this year, the lowest bar appears to be for white boys. The highest bar seems to be for white and Asian girls. [/quote]

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