Our state is a joke when it comes to G/T identification and education. In our district, the cut off is 98% on Cogat/Iowa for a half day pull out session once a week. 99% is cut off for full time if there is room. Our district is made up of many families that work at tech companies like Microsoft, Google, etc. so lots of highly educated people. If I go 1 mile to the east, that school district has a 90% cut off and offers a much more robust program but the district is also smaller and there is less competition. Attending there would mean having to move into that district zone. I gave up on our district when the director of the program spoke at a conference and said that in order to comply with state mandated gifted education, he was going to have a teacher drive to a different school each day and provide 30min of enrichment education to the kindergartners each week.
