AAP L4 appeal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For appeal you need “new information” to help
bolster your case, so be sure to have a new angle on the “why” with other examples to back up your appeal. The “why” might be something like including a short story your kid wrote that you hadn’t included before, a song he composed on the piano after watching some cartoon or a game he made with elaborate rules and if/then scenarios to demonstrate both creativity and logical thinking, or a robotics toy he put together by taking apart an old alarm clock just to see how he could reuse the parts, etc.

The point is that everyone does this "why" and includes "new information" because the AART will inform the parents of this and it's generally very well known. So, Central gets a whole bunch of "look at this thing that I didn't include before". And, unless that new thing sets the kid so far apart from what the original scoring, it rarely ends with a reversal on the decision. I don't have stats to back up what "rarely" means but it's a high percentage. The other thing that helps is if the WISC comes in considerably higher than the COGAT. Your kid could have had a bad day when the Quant section was administered, which is a leading indicator to the composite score. If the WISC shows something materially different, then that's another angle to use effectively towards a reversal. Otherwise, sorry to say, submitting a new story or a new math problem isn't the proven tactic.

The stats change on appeals in 3rd and 4th grade and sometimes even in 5th grade. The packages are very different now (compared to the 2nd grade submission made for your kid) and you can point to additional testing (SOL, iReady, retake of COGAT/WISC) and additional portfolio of work, which can indicate the child deserves to be in AAP. If your child is consistently scoring above 575 on the SOLs or 99% on iReady or COGAT/WISC, now you have real data to show that the kid belongs in AAP.