there must be some policy.
You may wish to check your
state laws/policies and also your school board policies (often found online on your school or district website).
For context, I'm aware of some schools/districts which are ensuring they achieve equal outcomes, including the equal representation of students identified as gifted, in proportion to the school/district population, by demographic. Unfortunately, this may involve
quotas, and result in excluding some gifted children in order to maintain the prescribed ratios, or delaying the recognition of some children's qualifying scores until a time when acknowledging their scores fits with the school's prescribed demographic quotas. For example quotas and ratios can be maintained by these scenarios:
- A gifted child with the
same demographic profile leaves the school/program/grade level, allowing the deferred child to be identified as gifted as a replacement for the child who left.
- One or more children with
other demographic profiles are identified as gifted, allowing the deferred child to be acknowledged as gifted, as the combination of newly identified/acknowledged students maintains the prescribed balance of demographic profiles.
