lol! I'm not sure that I'd call it the masses either, but I have seen where what amounts to 15% of the kids being GT identified (what we have locally) being something that is actually much broader than the sheer # would sound at face value.
That's probably what you get when you are in a comparatively high socio-economic community -- if all the parents of your kids' classmates are doctors, lawyers and/or engineers there is indeed a strong possibility that more than half of them would reach the 1SD mark (which is what the 15%/85-th percentile is)? We get a lot of that around here...
We're actually not in a community like that at all. We have schools where most of the parents don't have significant education beyond high school where 15% of the kids are ided as gifted.
That aside, I do realize that I am derailing my own thread. I know that I have a pet peeve about overidentification of kids who often don't fit into even that 1 SD area.
I guess that what I was wondering more is how we, as parents of top 2% kids (on average, I'm assuming that this board draws in more parents of kids who are 2+ SD than 1+ SD), define gifted. I believe that I've seen a lot of threads that seem to lean toward a 1+ SD type of definition of gifted here and am wondering how most of us define gifted. We seem to have a clear understanding of what is DYS level gifted and that some of the kids whose parents post here don't have kids at that point, but still have gifted kids. There seems to be a less clear definition of what constitutes non-DYS level but still constitutes gifted.
