Well...
Parents who honestly believe their kids are GT are correct much more often than not, I think. I'm not talking about the parents who want their kids in the program, GT or not. I guess there are some of those (though I've never met one). But there are far more parents who think their kids are "maybe a little bright" when they're really quite highly GT!
I'm not sure I buy having ONLY the parent recommendation without any other confirmation. That seems a rather sloppy policy. But I don't know that I buy that parents are incapable of objectively IDing kids as GT or not either.
Not to nitpick. But this is something that people often say as if it's fact, and I don't really buy it. I've seen far more parents of GT kids who are in denial than I've seen of the pushy "stage parents" who want their kids to be GT when they aren't. They're apparently all over the place making parents of truly GT kids look bad, but I've never met one before!
