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Whatever happened to the MCCPTA gifted ed committee efforts?[/quote]

Hard to say.  Ongoing, certainly, but like everone else (MCPS included), I expect that, personnally/professionally, they have bigger fish to fry under current circumstances.  In any case, and as with most things, it would take a large number of folks pushing for action/policy/legislation.  Getting something specific into the MCCPTA advocacy priorities would be a start.[/quote]

So then, how do we get MCCPTA to prioritize gifted ed?
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Get in touch with other parents/guardians at your school and write a common letter to your PTA's MCCPTA Delegate (or PTA President, if no Delegate), copying the MCCPTA President, VP Education, VP Advocacy, Curriculum Committee, Advocacy Committee & GEC (emails at https://www.mccpta.org/mccpta-leaders.html).

You might consider copying  your school's/pyramid's principal(s), the school's GT Liaison, the MCPS Interim Superintendent, the Chief of Teaching, Learning and Schools (OTLS), the Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Programming (OCIP) and whomever is leading or can be reached at the Office of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction (AEI).  (Find various emails at montgomeryschoolsmd.org website).

See if anyone on the nebulous AEI Feedback Council (they appear to be mostly MCPS-internal and not much is communicated about their activity -- go figure) can be reached for feedback to/engagement with *the community*.

Demand effective management of existing statutes, including a functioning AEI office with appropriate authorities to make things happen at schools. 
Include your County Council reps and  state Delegates/Senators (to push for legislation with teeth).

Repeat periodically until there is real movement.  Don't accept vague promises to look into things, but deliver messages with the grace of knowing that all of these folks likely are trying to help kids, but probably have one or other alternate priority.  Convince them to make *this* a priority with gentle persistence on any direct front.  With enough constituents participating, pursuing MCPS action at the same time as legislative action equally can put the writing on the wall to encourage more timely remedies than any unsympathetic approach.  Angry mob only works (and not well, typically) with overwhelming numbers (GT is a minority, pretty much by definition) and should only be pursued if meeting unresponsiveness; that said, it appears that GEC and others have been hitting a brick wall for some number of years...[/quote]

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