High nnat.....now what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has a website that explains the AAP process. Google is your friend.

omg they do? I had no idea

I read their website. Like a billion times. It isnt clear at all. My bad for asking questions on a designated forum for the subject matter.

[Anonymous]

FCPS AAP website is pretty bad. There are some useful links but you can get stuck in an endless loop very easily by accident. Too many pages have links in the middle that lead to too many previous pages. For example, you click on the AAP main page to the link about programs, then click on Elementary School services, then click on Level IV. It booby traps you right away with a link back the menu of elementary/middle/high school that you were on two pages ago. If you ignore that booby trap and continue down to the Identification and Placement tab, you're again booby trapped with Levels I-IV links that take you back to two previous pages before that (e.g., to the main Level IV page again). If you ignore those links, you are again booby trapped with an "Advanced Academics Overview" link that takes you back to where you were 4 pages ago. If you ignore that, you keep scrolling down and see a bunch of links to forms. It's only after you scroll down even farther that there is some semblance of a description of the AAP level IV process and timeline. Clearly the designer of these pages probably was not admitted into the Level IV program when they attended elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has a website that explains the AAP process. Google is your friend.

omg they do? I had no idea

I read their website. Like a billion times. It isnt clear at all. My bad for asking questions on a designated forum for the subject matter.

The website has the forms and dates and that is about it.

This site has anecdotal data points and guesses about what matters.

If you look at the gbrs sheet you get an idea about what traits they are looking for.

There is no clear answer as to what they are looking for in any of the areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has a website that explains the AAP process. Google is your friend.

omg they do? I had no idea

I read their website. Like a billion times. It isnt clear at all. My bad for asking questions on a designated forum for the subject matter.

I agree with you. We were coming from private to FCPS, and the website was clear as mud. I found this forum and cobbled together the information needed for referral.

Right now, there is nothing for you to do, besides (maybe) keeping any work product (and not just academic) that you think shows creativity and tangential thinking. Next year’s CogAT will inform what if anything you do with the material you collected. If those results are inconsistent with these results, then you may choose to submit these work samples and parent refer. If the second set of scores are similarly high, you may not need to do anything, but hang onto them in case you need to appeal a decision.

Don’t worry about the ADHD. There are several kids in DD’s class with ADD/ADHD, on the spectrum, etc. and all is well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS AAP website is pretty bad. There are some useful links but you can get stuck in an endless loop very easily by accident. Too many pages have links in the middle that lead to too many previous pages. For example, you click on the AAP main page to the link about programs, then click on Elementary School services, then click on Level IV. It booby traps you right away with a link back the menu of elementary/middle/high school that you were on two pages ago. If you ignore that booby trap and continue down to the Identification and Placement tab, you're again booby trapped with Levels I-IV links that take you back to two previous pages before that (e.g., to the main Level IV page again). If you ignore those links, you are again booby trapped with an "Advanced Academics Overview" link that takes you back to where you were 4 pages ago. If you ignore that, you keep scrolling down and see a bunch of links to forms. It's only after you scroll down even farther that there is some semblance of a description of the AAP level IV process and timeline. Clearly the designer of these pages probably was not admitted into the Level IV program when they attended elementary school.

yeah the fcps website was the first place I went....its terrible. the downloadable PowerPoint isnt any better either.

like to people who say "omg lmgtfy"....who hurt you? dont you think that was probably at the top of the results list where I found this link to these boards? ot further that going to my kids school site was something I did first before even googling? or that I attempted to do some amount of research when buying a home about the school district I was buying into with this in mind but again from the website it's not clear what the actual process is?

gotta love keyboard warriors though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has a website that explains the AAP process. Google is your friend.

omg they do? I had no idea

I read their website. Like a billion times. It isnt clear at all. My bad for asking questions on a designated forum for the subject matter.

I agree with you. We were coming from private to FCPS, and the website was clear as mud. I found this forum and cobbled together the information needed for referral.

Right now, there is nothing for you to do, besides (maybe) keeping any work product (and not just academic) that you think shows creativity and tangential thinking. Next year’s CogAT will inform what if anything you do with the material you collected. If those results are inconsistent with these results, then you may choose to submit these work samples and parent refer. If the second set of scores are similarly high, you may not need to do anything, but hang onto them in case you need to appeal a decision.

Don’t worry about the ADHD. There are several kids in DD’s class with ADD/ADHD, on the spectrum, etc. and all is well.

[Anonymous]

^ ah that's me.

thanks! question- you're the second person to say something along the lines of "hang onto them" (scores) - why? do you mean that literally? as in the district doesnt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ ah that's me.

thanks! question- you're the second person to say something along the lines of "hang onto them" (scores) - why? do you mean that literally? as in the district doesnt?