GT/AAP Appeals
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Anonymous
| Imagine if you folks took the time to volunteer to help a worthy cause instead of plotting how to sneak your undeserving son/daughter into a program he/she was already denied placement. |
Anonymous
| Imagine if the troll took the time to seek out mental health treatment (a worthy cause) instead of indulging her psychotic preoccupation with the GT appeal population . . . but then we'd miss her insane comments, which only serve to bolster our glee at having gotten our kids in. Oh yes, there are hundreds of us . . . dedicated, informed parents willing to go the extra mile, within the system, to get their gifted children in on appeal . . . yippee for us! |
Anonymous
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Hopeful here. In opposition to the troll, I've had each of my four children in GT/AAP, three were parent referred to the initial pool, with the last succeeding on appeal. Found out today that my second was accepted to TJ.
Keep believing in your kids -- you are their best champions. |
Anonymous
| Congrats hopeful! Keep championing . . . |
Anonymous
| I think the troll is jealous for some reason and wants us to feel bad for doing right by our kids. Not going to happen. No matter what, I'm going to speak up for my kid following the rules laid out for me. |
Anonymous
| The troll is just a psycho. Doesn't make any sense. |
Anonymous
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Just wanted to let you all know that my son got in on appeal to GT program after self-referral application was denied. His overall score on WISC varied, but his verbal was 99th percentile. His score from the teachers (GBRS? I can't remember exact acronym) was 11. His WISC was submitted with initial self-referral application. On appeal, for the new evidence, I submitted additional school work to show his creativity, which was why his 11 score wasn't higher - basically, the second grade teachers were all told to submit the same project work for all the kids, regardless of whether it was the kid's best work, and for my kid, the particular work they were told to submit was definitely not representative of his ability. Also, he was given an award for scoring third highest in his grade at his school on a comprehensive math test. I think we are our kids' best advocates and if we only rely on standardized tests at such an early age to determine whether they should be in the AAP program, we may well be selling some of them short. For the trolls out there, I recommend reading the book "Nurtureshock," particularly the section on GT programs, which states that giving standardized tests to kids earlier than 3rd grade (and perhaps even in elementary schools) does not at all accurately predict which children are most likely to be gifted and talented because at the young ages, many GT kids do not score well on these tests.
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Anonymous
| these posts are so sad... every time someone says something you don't like you call them a troll. |
Anonymous
| That's precisely how trollops behave. |
Anonymous
No, not them. There's one psycho troll. |
Anonymous
You are a serious b_ _ ch!! |
Anonymous
A psycho troll?? |
Anonymous
You need to look in the mirror. Oh....be careful it will probably break! |
Anonymous
[list]You need to look in the mirror. Oh....be careful it will probably break! |
Anonymous
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There is one psycho troll on this board if you are new to the board.
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