This is not a "do you think my dd is gifted?" post. Either she is or she isn't per our local guidelines. I will assume she is until she is tested. If I am proven wrong, I will probably be one of those parents that just suddenly stops posting.
An institution dealing with large numbers of people needs clear-cut rules, so a gifted program in a public school has to draw a line somewhere. But if the IQ cut-off is 130, there is no more difference between an IQ of 129 and 130 and 130 and 131. Giftedness is not a binary quality. Parents do not need to be guided by a strict IQ cut-off, and there is no cut-off for this forum.
