Parent questionnaire
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Anonymous
To your question at the end, yes, I think that is exactly what it is. I mean really, how much stock can they place in the fact that mom or dad thinks little Larla is a genius! |
Anonymous
Oh absolutely this is the case. People with kids with scores in pool are often denied services and parents who curate submissions of their children with much lower scores are accepted. It's crazy and I laugh every time someone on this board claims that this isn't a completely biased process. |
Anonymous
I think the questionnaire is bogus. Obviously the parents are going to present the best picture possible. But what’s wrong with taking a holistic approach to the process? If the committee is putting a lot of of focus on GBRS and the writing samples that’s a good thing because it’s observing a child over a period of time as opposed to a test taken for 45 minutes in one day. Also, the Cogat is so oddly scored where one question can be a difference between making the pool. I don’t think the committee looks at the questionnaire and samples from home at all. I think they focus on the GBRS, Cogat and writing samples and each is given equal importance. That’s what the AART at our school tells us and they keep emphasizing scores make up on one small part of the application. The kids with in pool scores are denied because of poor GBRS and bad writing samples. I don’t see anything biased about that. |
Anonymous
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I think the questionnaire and work samples from home could serve 3 main purposes:
-Your school's AAP committee definitely will look at them, and it might inform their decisions for GBRS scores and statements. This is especially true if you have a part time AART who barely knows your child. -There might be something in one of them that resonates with someone on the central panel. It's totally dumb, but the AART at my school suggested including all of that, because you never know what little thing might stick out to the panel members evaluating your child. -It shows that you really, really want your kid in AAP and will either complain at school board meetings or keep applying every year. If your kid is borderline and seems okay enough for AAP, they're more likely to let your kid in now rather than deal with the repeat applications or the headache of an angry parent. All of these things are biased toward educated, wealthier parents, and the whole process still is absurd. |
Anonymous
| Also in our school the GBRS is filled out solely by the second grade teacher which makes complete sense to me. What better way to asses a child than by direct observation? The AART comes to the classroom once a month and barely knows the students. The teacher fills out everything and writes the commentary. |
Anonymous
Maybe testing the honesty of the parents? I basically said that DD's sense of humor is entirely appropriate for her age. One of my friends did have anecdotes for her child's more mature sense of humor. She likely didn't need that, given the child's scores. |
Anonymous
Considering that this teacher has been around your kid for about three and a half months, I would actually think the first grade teacher's input would probably be helpful fwiw. |
Anonymous
I gave an honest answer, too, for my current second grader. I mean, I left out "she likes poop and fart jokes" but did say she has a typical second grade sense of humor. However, one of the first signs of my older child being really super smart was the fact that he understood the most subtle forms of humor starting in preschool. Almost every teacher from preschool through 2nd grade commented on it. So that was my favorite question back then. 
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Anonymous
It means the child sees humor where some kids wouldn’t grasp it. It shows they are more advanced in their thinking. The child might relate more to adults. |
Anonymous
| Are you including a picture in the application? |
Anonymous
I feel like AAP has officially jumped the shark w this Q. Like a glamour shot or headshot of my child? No, we will not be including that. |
Anonymous
We includes pictures of machinery and circuitry our son created. |
Anonymous
We included pictures of our child participating in an activity. It wasn't intended to show his face but it was more to show him building and tinkering and what he did. |
Anonymous
Did you know about the word questionnaire? |
Anonymous
| Is there a place to use to point out child is not a beneficiary of the term “white privilege”? |