Minorities almost never file the appeals that can help secure their admission to AAP

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Anonymous wrote:AA mom here who has 2 kids who went through AAP and 1 who is in 2nd now so we will see what happens in April. For my older 2, my story reads like the other AA mom who posted. I remember we had teachers and the AART question why we thought our kids belonged in AAP when we mentioned that we would parent refer if my kids did not get in pool. I was actively discouraged from applying. I had WISCs done on both kids before CogAT results came in. Son's FSIQ was 142 and daughter's was 139. Both ended up in pool. After the school sent their applications to the screening committee, I asked to see my children's files. Work samples were horrible and GBRSs were low. Both under 10. My extremely gifted children got under 10s. I had my own thoughts on why. My kids did very well in both ES and MS AAP. They are both Freshman at Phillips Academy now. Luckily, DH and I are both MDs and have the money to pay for WISCs, without giving it a thought.

For my 2nd grader, we had a WISC done before CogAt came back. His FSIQ is 138 on WISC-V (different WISC then his siblings took) and he's also in pool. I have not seen his file yet but I won't be surprised if the GBRS is under 10 again just because. I can't speak to AA and the appeals process but I can say there is bias at play and even in spite of scores, some AARTs and teachers don't see AA kids as gifted.

Just curious but did you encourage any other AA parents that you knew to parent refer or appeal?

No why would I do that? I don't talk about AAP with anyone, white, black, asian. I don't know the strengths and weaknesses of anyone else's child so it's not my place to say AAP is right or not.

Because white parents and Asian parents do it all the time and I believe that is why they are better informed about the processes and ins and outs and leads to the higher rates of prepping and testing. And it might be nice since the schools are so biased for a parent who might have been at your school who was facing the same bias to have someone to reach out to for advice on how to navigate and the best way to push through.

Not PP but why don't they do it for everyone, white, asian, or black since they do it "all the time?" Whites only talk to whites and asians only to asians? You can't see a parent of another race and do it? This was an ignorant question.