Fairfax County GT/AAP Appeals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH's Johnson is quite impressive. Will that help DC with appeal?

Some people will really go to any length to get their dc into AAP.

[Anonymous]

WTF, this is too wierd. 130 WISC and still not in? Have you met with your cluster office and/or school board member? I would do that next. Good luck! If you need moral support, know what I, too, am appealing and getting a WISC done for my DC next week (Dr. Dahlgren). Don't give up, don't go away, keep on trucking. Know what may of us are there for you in spirit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF, this is too wierd. 130 WISC and still not in? Have you met with your cluster office and/or school board member? I would do that next. Good luck! If you need moral support, know what I, too, am appealing and getting a WISC done for my DC next week (Dr. Dahlgren). Don't give up, don't go away, keep on trucking. Know what may of us are there for you in spirit.

I am teh skr poster on Page 9. DC is 3rd grade. She didnt make it and i almost threw a fit coz of the gbrs
Dalhgren's tested Stanford Binet and she is 125 now. Am appealing. *fingers crossed*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF, this is too wierd. 130 WISC and still not in? Have you met with your cluster office and/or school board member? I would do that next. Good luck! If you need moral support, know what I, too, am appealing and getting a WISC done for my DC next week (Dr. Dahlgren). Don't give up, don't go away, keep on trucking. Know what may of us are there for you in spirit.

We had a WISC higher than 130 and didn't get in. GBRS was pretty good, not amazing, but not bad either. Would you do anything else but appeal? What would you say if you met with the cluster officer or school board member?

[Anonymous]

Well...I would appeal to them, and ask why the AAP process is done in secret with no one to be held accountable for an obvious error in judegement. I am refering to SKR's DC. I do NOT know SKR. but her DCs numbers look too good to not be in AAP. I would ask for an objective answer to why DC was not found eligible. I know that I will be visiting Dr. Z (cluster 8) and Patty Reed (Providence) if DC is not accepted, as DC has very simialr scores and meets the AAP qualifications on paper. Also, I believe that a parent knows best, an involved parent, and I don't understand why 5 random people who do not know my child are making such a HUGE educational decision. Good luck. Please post back what happens, and if I knew you, I would roll along to Gatehouse to be there for support.

[Anonymous]

Stanford Binet scores are usually higher than WISC scores because there is no processing speed componant to bring the scores down. However, the committee is well aware of that and judges accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well...I would appeal to them, and ask why the AAP process is done in secret with no one to be held accountable for an obvious error in judegement. I am refering to SKR's DC. I do NOT know SKR. but her DCs numbers look too good to not be in AAP. I would ask for an objective answer to why DC was not found eligible. I know that I will be visiting Dr. Z (cluster 8) and Patty Reed (Providence) if DC is not accepted, as DC has very simialr scores and meets the AAP qualifications on paper. Also, I believe that a parent knows best, an involved parent, and I don't understand why 5 random people who do not know my child are making such a HUGE educational decision. Good luck. Please post back what happens, and if I knew you, I would roll along to Gatehouse to be there for support.

Wow.
There are no "AAP qualifications" to meet, so not quite sure how your child will meet them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well...I would appeal to them, and ask why the AAP process is done in secret with no one to be held accountable for an obvious error in judegement. I am refering to SKR's DC. I do NOT know SKR. but her DCs numbers look too good to not be in AAP. I would ask for an objective answer to why DC was not found eligible. I know that I will be visiting Dr. Z (cluster 8) and Patty Reed (Providence) if DC is not accepted, as DC has very simialr scores and meets the AAP qualifications on paper. Also, I believe that a parent knows best, an involved parent, and I don't understand why 5 random people who do not know my child are making such a HUGE educational decision. Good luck. Please post back what happens, and if I knew you, I would roll along to Gatehouse to be there for support.

Wow.
There are no "AAP qualifications" to meet, so not quite sure how your child will meet them.

+10000

[Anonymous]

High scores, high GBRS, all 4s - what else does need?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well...I would appeal to them, and ask why the AAP process is done in secret with no one to be held accountable for an obvious error in judegement. I am refering to SKR's DC. I do NOT know SKR. but her DCs numbers look too good to not be in AAP. I would ask for an objective answer to why DC was not found eligible. I know that I will be visiting Dr. Z (cluster 8) and Patty Reed (Providence) if DC is not accepted, as DC has very simialr scores and meets the AAP qualifications on paper. Also, I believe that a parent knows best, an involved parent, and I don't understand why 5 random people who do not know my child are making such a HUGE educational decision. Good luck. Please post back what happens, and if I knew you, I would roll along to Gatehouse to be there for support.

THANK YOU! It means a lot to know that I am right. It's been hard with the school as well, and I just know in my heart this was a wrong decision. That's exactly what I asked the teacher and the AART. Exceptf ro me and the classroom teacher who spend sall day with my DC, who really knows my child and the teacher admitted her scores were higher than what went into the file.

I'll post back here of course but this whole anon naming of the forum makes it difficult finding continuity with the posters

skr

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well...I would appeal to them, and ask why the AAP process is done in secret with no one to be held accountable for an obvious error in judegement. I am refering to SKR's DC. I do NOT know SKR. but her DCs numbers look too good to not be in AAP. I would ask for an objective answer to why DC was not found eligible. I know that I will be visiting Dr. Z (cluster 8) and Patty Reed (Providence) if DC is not accepted, as DC has very simialr scores and meets the AAP qualifications on paper. Also, I believe that a parent knows best, an involved parent, and I don't understand why 5 random people who do not know my child are making such a HUGE educational decision. Good luck. Please post back what happens, and if I knew you, I would roll along to Gatehouse to be there for support.

THANK YOU! It means a lot to know that I am right. It's been hard with the school as well, and I just know in my heart this was a wrong decision. That's exactly what I asked the teacher and the AART. Exceptf ro me and the classroom teacher who spend sall day with my DC, who really knows my child and the teacher admitted her scores were higher than what went into the file.

I'll post back here of course but this whole anon naming of the forum makes it difficult finding continuity with the posters

skr

Are you saying that the local screening committee (at the school) submitted a lower GBRS than what the classroom teacher had recommended?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well...I would appeal to them, and ask why the AAP process is done in secret with no one to be held accountable for an obvious error in judegement. I am refering to SKR's DC. I do NOT know SKR. but her DCs numbers look too good to not be in AAP. I would ask for an objective answer to why DC was not found eligible. I know that I will be visiting Dr. Z (cluster 8) and Patty Reed (Providence) if DC is not accepted, as DC has very simialr scores and meets the AAP qualifications on paper. Also, I believe that a parent knows best, an involved parent, and I don't understand why 5 random people who do not know my child are making such a HUGE educational decision. Good luck. Please post back what happens, and if I knew you, I would roll along to Gatehouse to be there for support.

THANK YOU! It means a lot to know that I am right. It's been hard with the school as well, and I just know in my heart this was a wrong decision. That's exactly what I asked the teacher and the AART. Exceptf ro me and the classroom teacher who spend sall day with my DC, who really knows my child and the teacher admitted her scores were higher than what went into the file.

I'll post back here of course but this whole anon naming of the forum makes it difficult finding continuity with the posters

skr

Are you saying that the local screening committee (at the school) submitted a lower GBRS than what the classroom teacher had recommended?

Yes.
They had a discussion and they came up with the numbers. They include (principal, asst principal, (who donno my kid) AART (who meets with her once a week for 45 minutes) and the advanced Math teacher was not even on the committee (who my DC meets with everyday)

[Anonymous]

I think what you're saying then is that the teacher was recommending a higher GBRS but that the local screening committee (including the AART) vetoed her recommendation and assigned a lower GBRS? It is a committee decision, so that was not an "error" but a judgment call on the part of the local committee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC's WISC is not high, but Woodcock-Johnson is very good. Any hope?

what is the scores of WISC? higher than 125?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTF, this is too wierd. 130 WISC and still not in? Have you met with your cluster office and/or school board member? I would do that next. Good luck! If you need moral support, know what I, too, am appealing and getting a WISC done for my DC next week (Dr. Dahlgren). Don't give up, don't go away, keep on trucking. Know what may of us are there for you in spirit.

We had a WISC higher than 130 and didn't get in. GBRS was pretty good, not amazing, but not bad either. Would you do anything else but appeal? What would you say if you met with the cluster officer or school board member?

you are going to meet with a school board member over this? Man, some people will not take NO for an answer.