please describe how you would determine which students need the advanced academics and intellectual peers of the specialty high schools in order to continue their growth and development, therefore "merit" admission to these schools?
Maybe we can develop a test for quirkiness, sensitivity, and overexcitabilities as this seems to be the way people define giftedness and not academic or intellectual ability
To clarify:
- There is a process for identifying gifted individuals, usually involving an IQ test and often a private psychologist.
- There is a process for selecting students who are a good "fit" for a particular program of a government school's advanced academics, usually involving an achievement test.
This thread did not raise the question of gifted identification, but rather use or discontinuation of admissions testing for NYC public specialty high schools.
