Average/High GBRS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18:58 again.

My son is currently in a private school. His current teacher completed the GBRS; no committee, no review by anyone else at the school. It was just the opinion of one adult. Admittedly, this worked in our favor, but my point is that if we had a teacher which didn't like our kid - and this happened in the past - we could have been denied admittance to the AAP program based on a poor GBRS.

11:5/11:51 here -- and this is just the way it was done for my DC. One teacher and that was it -- no committee, no principal, and no AART.

11:51 are you in private????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

11:5/11:51 here -- and this is just the way it was done for my DC. One teacher and that was it -- no committee, no principal, and no AART.

11:51 are you in private????

Public

[Anonymous]

There is no sure fire way to make sure only the most worthy kids are admitted. Gbrs is an attempt to quantify the qualitative...the STandard test suites have there bias. Wisconsin is better, but not everyone can afford them. From what I can, though, in my dd peer group there is only one surprise to who did not make it,,,,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

11:5/11:51 here -- and this is just the way it was done for my DC. One teacher and that was it -- no committee, no principal, and no AART.

11:51 are you in private????

Public

It's amazing how different the process can be, which adds to how subjective it is. My child has a committee of 4 people, none of which know her personally, and your child gets his or her classroom teacher. It seems incredibly unfair, especially when the GBRS seems heavily weighted. The process should at least be uniform.

[Anonymous]

My son has 130 in NNAT, highest in one section of COGAT is 127 with all other in 120's
GBRS is 12
all report cards with Os and Gs
Does he stand a chance to be selected in AAP program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has 130 in NNAT, highest in one section of COGAT is 127 with all other in 120's
GBRS is 12
all report cards with Os and Gs
Does he stand a chance to be selected in AAP program?

plenty of posts around here by people who had scores in 115-120 range, didn't get in initially, but appealed and got in.
Mostly a matter of how hard you want to push it.

[Anonymous]

Varies by school. Quite a few of our friends have complained about process at Floris in past years. Floris tends to suppress the GBRS scores of students in the pool. Even though there is a "committee", the AAP teacher dominates the discussion rather than the class teacher. The write-ups are notoriously sketchy and unhelpful. Complaints about the AAP teacher have not changed anything. External testing usually remedies this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Varies by school. Quite a few of our friends have complained about process at Floris in past years. Floris tends to suppress the GBRS scores of students in the pool. Even though there is a "committee", the AAP teacher dominates the discussion rather than the class teacher. The write-ups are notoriously sketchy and unhelpful. Complaints about the AAP teacher have not changed anything. External testing usually remedies this issue.

I don't know anything about Floris. Is it a middle range school (i.e not one of the highest performing ones)? Perhaps filled with immigrant kids? My kids go to a middle-ish school with lots of immigrant kids for whom English is no a first language. My theory is that they are artificially suppressing GBRS scores to keep the "good" kids. They actively discourage parents from sending kids to the Level IV Centers although the school does not have LLIV. They actually lied to me about what programs are available there and told me that lots of parents send their kids back there after a year because it's so much better than the center. Then they told me the center is too hard and all of the kids end up slaving away and in tutoring. I sent my child to the Center despite their warnings and couldn't be happier.

[Anonymous]

My DH had 7 and got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH had 7 and got in.

I thought DH meant Dear Husband.

[Anonymous]

will be curious to see what happens this year...have been hearing lots of different theories on which criteria is the most important. Most say that GBRS is weighted the most, then test scores and grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the current teacher fill out the GBRS form for purposes of admissions into the program? thx

Yes

That's not exactly true. It is filled out by a committee at the child's school. At my child's school, the teacher was NOT on the committee. It had the Principal, Asst. Principal, AART and Counselor. The AART would get input from all of the child's teachers. Some schools have the teacher on the committee. It is not the same at every school, which I think makes it even more unfair.

That seems very odd.

(Another poster here.)
I agree, but that was what happened at our school too. The second grade teacher (and perhaps first and K) may have had input, but she did NOT sign the GBRS. Just the committee as listed above.