Two children - only one in AAP
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Aaarg! Apparently you all are handling this well at home, but I hate that this AAP nonsense is dividing our homes! Why can’t they just make it like AP courses in high school so upper ES (4-6) can place into subjects they excel at? (Either LA or math)… I agree AAP is social divide and not truly academic esp in SES schools. To be truly academic, really the very visible top 1% or so should be placed into it. I think that’s what it meant when lawmakers made GR program statutory.
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Anonymous
The old 132 threshold for the CoGAT and NNAT were set at the 99th percentile, meaning the in-pool scores were the top 1%. I am not sure what you mean very visible top 1%. DS is a quieter kid who does not volunteer answers regularly but whose Teachers knew he knew the answer and would call on him. He was/is a straight 4 kid on his ES report cards. His Teachers gave him 3CO and 1 FO on his GBRSs with good examples of how he brought in outside knowledge, went into greater depth on subjects on his own, and the like. He was accepted in the initial round of acceptances but he is not the kid that is going to jump out at the casual adult as super smart or gifted, ie highly visible. I saw a comment about language immersion programs and AAP. Some LI programs have AAP. SOme make a local level IV class work and some use the cluster method. I think a lot of it has to do with the size of the school. I also know that there are some LI programs were kids who are out of boundary and in LI cannot participate in LLIV while in boundary kids can. I have no clue why that is. |
Anonymous
| Make sure you don't rave about AAP so much at home that the child who doesn't get into it feels incapacitated. |