Advice sought for aap appeal

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries? Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries? Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

Missing the point once again. There’s been a meltdown on this board about how equity has taken over AAP decision making. My DC has strong scores PLUS a mention of knowing to read and write a difficult and almost certainly unrepresented language in AAP and didn’t get in. So that specific data point which may or may not tick the equity box which we don’t know much about and people are making assumptions about, didn’t seem to weigh more than others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries? Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

Missing the point once again. There’s been a meltdown on this board about how equity has taken over AAP decision making. My DC has strong scores PLUS a mention of knowing to read and write a difficult and almost certainly unrepresented language in AAP and didn’t get in. So that specific data point which may or may not tick the equity box which we don’t know much about and people are making assumptions about, didn’t seem to weigh more than others.

Since you keep emphasizing DC speaks this obscure language rather than DC is from this culture mu guess is it is an Eastern European one or am Asian language. White and Asian kids are viewed as in ample supply by FCPS; it’s Latino and Black kids they are trying to get more of into AAP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries? Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

Missing the point once again. There’s been a meltdown on this board about how equity has taken over AAP decision making. My DC has strong scores PLUS a mention of knowing to read and write a difficult and almost certainly unrepresented language in AAP and didn’t get in. So that specific data point which may or may not tick the equity box which we don’t know much about and people are making assumptions about, didn’t seem to weigh more than others.

DP. They don't care about diversity. They care about optics and checking the boxes that make them look equitable on paper. If your kid is white or Asian, non FARMS, non ESOL, and non SN, then your child isn't checking any equity boxes for them. An affluent, white hispanic kid or Nigerian Immigrant kid with highly educated parents still checks the 'Hispanic' or 'black' box, respectively, so they are a priority for equity purposes. A lower middle class Asian kid from an ethnic minority group with non college educated parents who also speaks an 'unrepresented language in AAP' doesn't check any equity boxes, so they're not a priority.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries? Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

Missing the point once again. There’s been a meltdown on this board about how equity has taken over AAP decision making. My DC has strong scores PLUS a mention of knowing to read and write a difficult and almost certainly unrepresented language in AAP and didn’t get in. So that specific data point which may or may not tick the equity box which we don’t know much about and people are making assumptions about, didn’t seem to weigh more than others.

DP. They don't care about diversity. They care about optics and checking the boxes that make them look equitable on paper. If your kid is white or Asian, non FARMS, non ESOL, and non SN, then your child isn't checking any equity boxes for them. An affluent, white hispanic kid or Nigerian Immigrant kid with highly educated parents still checks the 'Hispanic' or 'black' box, respectively, so they are a priority for equity purposes. A lower middle class Asian kid from an ethnic minority group with non college educated parents who also speaks an 'unrepresented language in AAP' doesn't check any equity boxes, so they're not a priority.

I agree with this assessment of the current equity situation.

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

NP here. Knowing another language doesn’t correlate completely with the factors listed on the GBRS. Does your kid know Spanish and French because the parents respectively have roots in Spanish- and French-speaking countries? Or did your kid teach themselves Esperanto because they have a desire to learn new languages?

Missing the point once again. There’s been a meltdown on this board about how equity has taken over AAP decision making. My DC has strong scores PLUS a mention of knowing to read and write a difficult and almost certainly unrepresented language in AAP and didn’t get in. So that specific data point which may or may not tick the equity box which we don’t know much about and people are making assumptions about, didn’t seem to weigh more than others.

DP. They don't care about diversity. They care about optics and checking the boxes that make them look equitable on paper. If your kid is white or Asian, non FARMS, non ESOL, and non SN, then your child isn't checking any equity boxes for them. An affluent, white hispanic kid or Nigerian Immigrant kid with highly educated parents still checks the 'Hispanic' or 'black' box, respectively, so they are a priority for equity purposes. A lower middle class Asian kid from an ethnic minority group with non college educated parents who also speaks an 'unrepresented language in AAP' doesn't check any equity boxes, so they're not a priority.

I agree with this assessment of the current equity situation.

Except I do think there may be a FARMS consideration as well. There may be a FARMS special pool. Not sure though - someone should dig on that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

Nope, not at all. it was listed along with the other extra curricular activities DC does. And I mention all this in response to the collective meltdown over equity. The truth is we just don't know how it figures if at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

Nope, not at all. it was listed along with the other extra curricular activities DC does. And I mention all this in response to the collective meltdown over equity. The truth is we just don't know how it figures if at all.

You listed all of your child’s extracurricular activities on the AAP application?

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

Nope, not at all. it was listed along with the other extra curricular activities DC does. And I mention all this in response to the collective meltdown over equity. The truth is we just don't know how it figures if at all.

You listed all of your child’s extracurricular activities on the AAP application?

Do you have issues with reading comprehension? Where did I say “all”? I listed specific activities my DC does outside of school in parent referral to give a sense of their interests and passions

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

Nope, not at all. it was listed along with the other extra curricular activities DC does. And I mention all this in response to the collective meltdown over equity. The truth is we just don't know how it figures if at all.

You listed all of your child’s extracurricular activities on the AAP application?

Do you have issues with reading comprehension? Where did I say “all”? I listed specific activities my DC does outside of school in parent referral to give a sense of their interests and passions

Different poster:

You look like an idiot. Writing like you’re superior and others can’t read. You did not list that your kid reads and writes in another language to show passions and interests. You wrote it specifically in consideration of the equity initiatives. Otherwise, why write: “I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school?”

You 100% dropped this into the application hoping it would give the equity edge. Underrepresented language included in the AAP application…Thanks for the 😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

Nope, not at all. it was listed along with the other extra curricular activities DC does. And I mention all this in response to the collective meltdown over equity. The truth is we just don't know how it figures if at all.

You listed all of your child’s extracurricular activities on the AAP application?

DP but I did too. I think they ask about that kind of stuff. It gives a fuller picture of the child. Doesn't necessarily help the admissions but gives a picture of the child.

[Anonymous]

Don’t give home samples at this point. I don’t how you answered the parent questionnaire, but maybe you didn’t do your best in that area?

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Anonymous wrote:OP- I know there’s been a backlash on this board regarding FCPS’s AAP equity initiatives but I should add that in my parent referral form, I mentioned that my DC reads and writes what I imagine is an under-represented language in AAP and they didn’t get in, so whatever equity initiative is in play didn’t benefit DC, despite what some posters might think. It’s all quite mysterious. It’s possible the scores just didn’t hit the mark for our school? 🤷‍♀️

What does this have to do with an equity initiative?

Did you missed the part about mentioning that DC speaks an underrepresented language? Underrepresentation = equity.

No, I got that part. Let’s say it is Spanish. How is the kid speaking Spanish helpful? Maybe his au pair taught him. Maybe he went to an immersion preschool. What does this have to do with the kid be URM?

Oh, because it’s a language that’s not typically learned by non native speakers or taught by au pairs (lol). Can’t tell if you’re being deliberately dense?

I’m guessing it was transparent that you dropped the information in under a supposed pretext to try and get the ethnicity edge but it didn’t work.

Nope, not at all. it was listed along with the other extra curricular activities DC does. And I mention all this in response to the collective meltdown over equity. The truth is we just don't know how it figures if at all.

DP. I’m confused. Why would you think speaking an obscure language would at all be relevant for FCPS equity initiatives? They’re not related. The equity initiatives are there to increase participation in AAP for black, Hispanic, FARMS, ESOL, and SN. Non ESOL bilingual kids are not a disadvantaged group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t give home samples at this point. I don’t how you answered the parent questionnaire, but maybe you didn’t do your best in that area?

Unnecessarily rude and a good reminder why I rarely post on here.