Yes, exactly. Even though the kid who scored 134 is GT, they have to draw the line somewhere because of $ and not having enough of the GT teacher's time to go around. So they raise the bar.
I makes it really stink for those GT kids who don't make it over that higher bar. But hopefully the services that the kids who ARE receiving services get is better quality.
This is also why our schools raised the age of service from 3rd grade to 4th grade this year. The state mandates X-number of minutes per week that a GT child being served must receive to be counted. They couldn't make that number and serve the 3rd graders, too, so they cut services to 3rd graders entirely so as to be in compliance with the law.
It's certainly not a perfect system as it stands, but the GT advocate who spoke to our POGS group last month was 100% behind the changes in our state. Most people in the know are considering the changes a step in the right direction, albeit with many more steps to go...
