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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a gifted program anymore.

Teacher remarks should have the most weight. Is the child advanced? Hard working? Curious? Bright? That is the child for AAP. [/quote]

From someone who had one kid with a 15 gbrs and one with a 16:  the gbrs should carry a lot of weight but I could definitely see how kids could fall through the cracks and not get the gbrs deserved. I previously taught and know that during the local committee meetings, we boosted gbrs as high as legitimately possible for kids with lower scores who truly stood out as gifted. So if a kid with a 120 cogat was considered, wed give a very high gbrs bc he belonged in aap. [/quote]

Actually a lot of the truly gifted kids are probably annoying as hell, extremely noncompliant, and can also grate on the teachers -- asking impossible questions and in case of kids on the spectrum, not reading social cues, talking too much, not following directions etc.  Not every gifted kid is going to present as "mature", that's for darned sure, due to the delights of asynchronous development in the highly gifted.  The math genius in my kid's middle school had trouble sitting in his seat and seemed to spend a lot of time sitting under his desk.  When I read about a kid with a 99 percent not getting into the program, that was my first thought -- extremely bright kids sometimes simply baffle teachers, I think.  When they encounter these guys, their first thought is not necessary 'what a gifted child' but more like "why is he sucking on his shirt sleeves, refusing to make eye contact, refusing to follow directions, etc."[b]  I think FCPS is better at picking up conventionally bright kids than extremely gifted kids who may also be 2E[/b].[/quote]

Since they are mostly all in AAP, I think you've got it backwards.  [/quote]

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