Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when the Mantua orientation is?
Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else get an orientation date/time at a GT Center of Monday 5/10 at 2:15? If this is designed for parents to attend, why would they schedule the orientation for 2:15? Assuming that either parent works (which is likely), how can the family really experience the GT center that day? I'm wondering whether it might be a typo. I'm planning to call the GT center tomorrow to check.
Anonymous wrote:I'm going to be moving my child to the GT Center from a LLIV in 4th grade. Honestly, I'm not going to worry about it that much. I know a few people at our Center and their math does not seem advanced vs ours. But I am planning to go to the GT Orientation for our center and that seems like a good question to ask.
Anonymous wrote:Anyone have any information about going to the GT Center as a 4th grader (not 3rd grader)? Will DC be really behind in math w/ GT's compacted math? I'm wondering if DC needs to do some catching up over the summer.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:But I prepared strong work samples and parental questionaire. Had to fight with the base school
on GIBS and school samples submitted- lots of people involved and finally the school caved-in and pulled their sample out. For the few weeks in March/April, his GT thing
became my full-time job.
What do you mean by, "had to fight with the base school on GIBS and school samples submitted?" I mean don't they just do their thing? How can you fight with them and they pull their sample out?
Thanks!
One of the school sample submiited to the central office was only 25% finished, the school just wanted the committee to see the kid does not finish the school work@school (in fact he finishes 85% of the school work on-site). After all the evidents were dug out, few meetings with the principal and cluster superintedent, the school pulled out their sample not letting me know (I called AAP office, the staff informed me his GT resource teacher pulled that sample out). Also for GIBS/GBRS, I let the central office know that GBRS was very unfairly rated- my kid was not nicely treated by his classroom teaher - the GT committee. I guess I did the appeal work beforehand.
I guess what I don't understand is how you even got to know beforehand what went into the packet??? My AAP would not meet with me and when I asked DC's homeroom and reading/math teachers about it, they referred me to the AAP coordinator. I suspect something similar happened to DC. Oh well, I'll get the packet and see.
Anonymous wrote:
Interesting. If schools are including samples like that, it would go a long way toward explaining why some kids with high scores do not make the cut. Families may request copies of everything submitted, right?