Fairfax County GT/AAP Appeals.

[Anonymous]

GBRS is 4 questions, 4 points each question. To be above average, your DC need better than 8 total. So 6 is below average. I don't think anybody knows for sure what kind of WISC will overcome GBRS 6, but it's your money, you DC, go for it. If didn't work out, do the PP planned, go for it the next year. Remember you can keep on trying until 7th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is GBRS 6 too low to overcome? We have an appointment with Dr. Dalgren next week but just wanted to hear from you all about our dc's chances. In a what score range of the WISC does my dc needs to settle in to overcome that crazy GBRS? Thanks.

Dr. Dahlgren will give you her honest assessment. I would guess that you need a very high WISC (over 140).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks.
I have to appeal. The Stanford-Binet and the WJ scores are good. Dr. Dahlgren asked me to go for it. 50-50 chance, as the GBRS will continue to hurt my DC. If not this year, next year and hope to get a fair enough teacher/school who will do the right thing.
However, my Dc will not continue here. After knowing what they did, I have no faith in the school admin that they will ever be fair and give her an honest grading on GBRS.

Timing's off, very badly. It affects all of us differently.

Go for it. If not this year, go for it next year. If not next year, move to another school the year after. You have 5 more years to go for it, and FCPS has more than 5 schools you can move to. Some of us will pray for your DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks.
I have to appeal. The Stanford-Binet and the WJ scores are good. Dr. Dahlgren asked me to go for it. 50-50 chance, as the GBRS will continue to hurt my DC. If not this year, next year and hope to get a fair enough teacher/school who will do the right thing.
However, my Dc will not continue here. After knowing what they did, I have no faith in the school admin that they will ever be fair and give her an honest grading on GBRS.

Timing's off, very badly. It affects all of us differently.

I am worried about you. This post sounds unstable. "I have to appeal . . . [a]fter knowing what they did . . . [t]iming's off, very badly. It affects all of us differently." Are you okay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is GBRS 6 too low to overcome? We have an appointment with Dr. Dalgren next week but just wanted to hear from you all about our dc's chances. In a what score range of the WISC does my dc needs to settle in to overcome that crazy GBRS? Thanks.

GBRS seems like a heavier weightage than they let us on.

Is your DC in 2nd grade? How are the CoGat scores? Did you ask the teacher why she was scored so low?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks.
I have to appeal. The Stanford-Binet and the WJ scores are good. Dr. Dahlgren asked me to go for it. 50-50 chance, as the GBRS will continue to hurt my DC. If not this year, next year and hope to get a fair enough teacher/school who will do the right thing.
However, my Dc will not continue here. After knowing what they did, I have no faith in the school admin that they will ever be fair and give her an honest grading on GBRS.

Timing's off, very badly. It affects all of us differently.

Go for it. If not this year, go for it next year. If not next year, move to another school the year after. You have 5 more years to go for it, and FCPS has more than 5 schools you can move to. Some of us will pray for your DC.

Thanks :--)

To be brutally honest, I want her out of this school. Gen ed in any of the 4 schools within 3 mile radius of mine are doing much better than here. Plus social setting. Principal couldnt care less how zoning happens, she will not fight for resources. I just want my DC to get teh right challenge and grow in the right environment. AAP or not, this school is just not cutting it anymore. Sadly. I love the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Thanks.
I have to appeal. The Stanford-Binet and the WJ scores are good. Dr. Dahlgren asked me to go for it. 50-50 chance, as the GBRS will continue to hurt my DC. If not this year, next year and hope to get a fair enough teacher/school who will do the right thing.
However, my Dc will not continue here. After knowing what they did, I have no faith in the school admin that they will ever be fair and give her an honest grading on GBRS.

Timing's off, very badly. It affects all of us differently.

I am worried about you. This post sounds unstable. "I have to appeal . . . [a]fter knowing what they did . . . [t]iming's off, very badly. It affects all of us differently." Are you okay?

haha, I am. Long day and am just thinking aloud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is GBRS 6 too low to overcome? We have an appointment with Dr. Dalgren next week but just wanted to hear from you all about our dc's chances. In a what score range of the WISC does my dc needs to settle in to overcome that crazy GBRS? Thanks.

GBRS seems like a heavier weightage than they let us on.

Is your DC in 2nd grade? How are the CoGat scores? Did you ask the teacher why she was scored so low?

Yes, she's a 2nd grader. She scored 146(99%) NNAT, 80% FxAt,mostly4's and some 3on the report card. I think the extremely low GBRS is due to her shyness in her class participation. At home,she does 3rd-4th grade math,advanced reading, etc... but I don't think the teacher noticed any of her abilities.

[Anonymous]

What was her cogat breakdown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was her cogat breakdown?

Don't have the paper with me at the moment,but I can tell you that the scores were in the following order: nonverbal>quantitative>verbal. She's better at perceptions.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to decide on a psychologist to administer the WISC. Who would you prefer between Dr. Dehlgren and the Midwell? Any experiences with one or both?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else's school have their local committee assign the GBRS to in pool candidates first, before referrals are even due, and then the referrals only after they get referred? Seems like with this method, referred students already have bias against them since the teachers know they didn't make the pool.

This is the methodology outlined for schools by the AAP office. They do the in pool kids once they know who they are (late January), then they do the referrals after all the referrals come in by the Feb 8th date. They do it like this every year.

Here is the link which is on boarddocs. The pool kids GBRS are done by 2/8 and the referral kids are done by 3/1. All of the teachers know the scores when they come out and also who is in the pool in January. So I don't think the timing makes any bias. Probably the scores speak for themselves.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/8XZS6F70FB55/$file/N2401.2012.pdf

[Anonymous]

SKR, the reason that I tell you to appeal is that what they had in mind for my DD was to be in the slow class and bring up the scores while also being the class babysitter. Of course, this is not what I had in mind for my DD. I appealed and won. I think that many qualified DCs are put in this position. The Principal told me he "hated" all these smart kids and that they did nothing for the school, and there were too many of them anyway. He told me what he liked was children with problems because the State funds those. Maybe he was just yanking my chain, but we left and went to the center school after that. GL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SKR, the reason that I tell you to appeal is that what they had in mind for my DD was to be in the slow class and bring up the scores while also being the class babysitter. Of course, this is not what I had in mind for my DD. I appealed and won. I think that many qualified DCs are put in this position. The Principal told me he "hated" all these smart kids and that they did nothing for the school, and there were too many of them anyway. He told me what he liked was children with problems because the State funds those. Maybe he was just yanking my chain, but we left and went to the center school after that. GL

Same DC now a junior at TJ. with WISC score 125.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:.

GBRS seems like a heavier weightage than they let us on.

I wish it was that simple. My DC's GBRS was 16 and DC was rejected.