So we did the screening and the consultation and, somewhat disconcertingly, DS score is supposed to be one of the highest this year, with a FSIQ of 138.
Have the scores for gifted education significantly changed?
I remember years ago that the minimum was a 135 for the in-school pull-out program.
Europe, remember?
But I agree that the cutoff should be 130, not 120, with public college prep track catering to kids for the 70th percentile and above, a cut off around the 80th percentile for a single gifted classroom in a built up area of over 200,000 inhabitants sounds ridiculous. But they have a hard time filling the classroom, with gifted ed suffering from a stigma that regular college prep track doesn't. The official reasoning for moving the cutoff for 130 to 120 was that "we are moving to group tests and research shows that the highly gifted actually do worse on group tests" (before, they accepted individual testing as well) which pounds eve more ridiculous. But they are banking on a self selection bias with the stigma of gifted ed making sure that parents will seek entry into the gifted program based on the kids actual educational need rather than parents' need for social segregation (because you get that with regular college prep track, sadly) or prestige (which is easier to get by having a kid do well in regular college prep track, due to the stigma attached to gifted ed.
