How did you know whether to refer your child for level IV?
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Anonymous
No, your point was to brag about your “16 GBRS” kid. |
Sure. Your kids are the most special snowflakes to grace an AAP classroom. Regular people, however, shouldn't bother asking the teacher, since they will get a very neutral response.
Anonymous
Um. No. A 15 GBRS is still ludicrously high. There's no real difference between a 16 and a 15 GBRS, other than splitting hairs. In both cases, the teachers thought the kids absolutely belong in AAP and are probably the most gifted kids in the entire grade. 12 or 13 is like the median score for kids who are admitted to AAP. |
Anonymous
What is your opinion? Was the specialist right? Or the classroom teacher? Are they equally advanced in aap? Did they have similar scores? |
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With my oldest, I was not planning to refer him. We thought if he tested in, we would consider it - but otherwise we had younger kids going to the base and it would be easier to keep them together.
In the end, we got “lucky” because DS1 got a 132 on the Cogat and that was the in pool score (and he was found eligible). But if he had gotten a 130 I wouldn’t have refered him, which in hindsight would have probably been a mistake. Now I am going to refer DS2 (2nd grade now) but I know a little more this time about what is above grade level, etc. that I didn’t know about with DS1. |
Anonymous
Fwiw i sent home school work that was sent home - and noted that. I didn’t have my kid prep / revise anything at home. |
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^^ sent in
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Anonymous
They should be placing more emphasis on the work done at school, of course. That's what I thought last year and didn't send in any work from home. DS had in-pool scores and wasn't accepted, and when I looked at the package the work samples didn't really demonstrate his abilities. See last year's thread "My kid got 99% CogAT and was rejected" - several people said that they didn't do much for the parent referral and their kids were not accepted, despite having good scores. |
Anonymous
The 16-gbrs kid had 140s on both nnat and cogat, which I am guessing the specials teacher would have no idea about. The other kid had a pretty average nnat but highish cogat. I can't recall the score exactly but maybe a 135 or so. I agree with the specialist in that my one kid stands out to ME that he seems brighter to ME than my other kid but along the way I've seen brighter kids at the school that stand out to ME. I guess I'd say the kid the teacher made the comment about, probably does stand out to others, but there are a few others (two) like that at the school who are even (far) brighter. You know kids like that when you see them and I'm talking back in second grade I'd encouter a kid like this and within being around them for a few minutes, you'd know this kid was different. This isn't your typical smart kid. |
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FCPS is changing NNAT and Cogat formats questions to include never before seen questions and tricks to battle against heavily prepared parents. So a lot of last GBRS and test score discussions are not as relevant for this and upcoming years. 1. Teacher’s comments 2. Work samples matter more.
Op should rather check whether the child follows instructions of the AART and class room teacher very well. If yes, then you will get higher GBRS. |
Anonymous
I like this post. I'm not sure if it's 50% crazy or 100% crazy but I like it. |
Anonymous
| If you read the threads from last spring when the AAP decisions went out, there was a lot of hand wringing from parents whose kids got in-pool scores but were not accepted to AAP on the first round. There's no guarantee that parent referring would result in an acceptance, but I think a lot of those parents wished they had done the additional step of submitting a parent referral. This is just my assessment though of reading those threads. I'd say if you're on the fence about the referral, better to just do it. |