I don't even know what our state standards are
FWIW, there are different id levels and different services provided in our school district.
From my perspective, it's a hugely complicated issue, defining what is and isn't gifted. While guidelines/criteria may very from district to district, programming varies also, as well as student population. It's quite possible that the classroom experience of a student who's in a Silicon-Valley-esque neighborhood with most students having highly educated parents might not need to be id'd as "gifted" because the peer group and resources available in the classroom drives a high-enough level of learning. OTOH, a child who is "only" at 90th percentile in a classroom in a poverty-challenged neighborhood may very well need to be id'd as gifted to get an appropriate education. At the end of the day, I feel like the gifted label is nothing more than that - a label. The issue is being sure students are able to access an appropriate level of educational challenge, and how that happens is going to vary between (and sometimes within) school districts.
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