Well, we live in a district where some of the kids in the GT program are in the 50th percentile for ability testing, and the average percentile for ability testing is the 70th percentile. Virtually all these kids are included in the GT program because of their scores on state testing, MAP testing, and teacher recommendations. So, the GT net is huge and kids who are redshirted have an advantage. Rather than a score cutoff, there is a set number of students that can qualify for each school. Every kid deserves the kind of enrichment that kids in the GT program get, but the quality of the enrichment can be affected when you're targeting it at students at different ability levels, and it means that an EG kid still may not have a peer group or a challenging environment and may still need acceleration beyond the GT program.
What really gets my goat are the parents who brag loudly that their kids are subject or grade accelerated when they were redshirted in the first place.
Last edited by mnmom23; 03/08/12 09:35 AM.
