The sheer number of posts relating to AAP and CoGAT and TAG and G&T is staggering

[Anonymous]

Let me just start off saying that the more I've thought about it, the more o.k. I am with my child NOT going to AAP.

However, I had to laugh a little at the note that was recently sent home to all the 2nd grade parents telling them that their child will be given the CogAT test on such and such dates and it's just so the school has one more piece of info. about the child's strengths. Nowhere in this letter were the words "Advanced Academic Program" mentioned. Nothing about this test being used to select kids for a pool of applicants. Nothing about how your child might go to a different school next year. Just so very cryptic (and low key) about this silly little test that apparently doesn't mean anything and isn't about anything in particular. (not exactly telling it like it is -- but, obviously, they don't want parents to get too interested in what it means).

Funny.

[Anonymous]

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The more I read about AAP the more confused I get. It'll be nice if parents with kids in this program just create a to do list/ FAQ for those that are interested in the program.

So glad that there is one already:

http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/aap/faqs.html

what's this? the official site? show me a wiki page or some blogs else all that is just a lie!

Absolutely! An official site would never have facts. Right, Oliver Stone?

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we really THIS neurotic?

No, SOME of us are perfectly fine. Unfortunately, SOME parents' egos can't handle the rejection when their daughter/son is rejected for AAP. So they commiserate here and plot ways to sneak into the program. Much angst despite the fact that many kids not admitted to AAP are extremely bright and will have a fine academic future.

I agree 100%. I am so tired of the plotting parents and the agony. If your child didn't get in, he/she shouldn't be in. The process is full of checks and balances.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I'm not going to call a parent who follows the rules about appealing, having their child independently tested, and then accepted with high scores a "plotter". I would call them a parent who believed in their child.

A child who gets in on appeal or on parent referral is NO LESS DESERVING than a child who sailed through the admittance process.

Let's save our scorn for the parents who try to sue, or force feed their children Cogat practice tests, or post here trying to dissuade appealers from exercising their right to appeal in order to keep class size down by mayb one kid.

[Anonymous]

Class size is random anyways. If the AAP class size was 29, 9 more kids get in via appeal would make it two classes of 19.

That troll is some crazy ignorant individual.

[Anonymous]

Proud parent of a child who sqeaked in on appeal. He he he.

[Anonymous]

Very proud parent of a child who sqeaked in on appeal with WISC score of 145.

[Anonymous]

No, SOME of us are perfectly fine. Unfortunately, SOME parents' egos can't handle the rejection when their daughter/son is rejected for AAP. So they commiserate here and plot ways to sneak into the program.

Go away silly troll.

Find one posting on any of the threads in this forum where the commiserating rejected parents are plotting ways to sneak in the system. Really, produce one posting. just one...

Welcome to the infamous DCUM AAP flame war bashing unsuspecting parent who asks how they can get their kid into APP.

This has been going on for years on this forum. Sometimes entertaining, certainly embarrassing, the current theory is that it is mostly likely one mentally deranged poster who is posting 95% of the messages slamming the poor unsuspecting parents asking their questions about getting in.

The idea that quote, “real deserving students” are somehow suffering is just flat out wrong. Somehow, I have the impression that the troll poster(s) seems to think that since their children got in that they are some sort of super-genus that would otherwise be finding a cure for cancer if all of those lowlife appeal students didn’t get in as well. No. Not true. The AAP program is not some super elite training camp for Einstein’s it is an accelerated learning program for the top 15% of students. The homework is not that hard and the class work is not that much more challenging than regular classes but if your child does get in he or she will have great classmates.

[Anonymous]

My son just did the Cogat practice questions yesterday. From his description of some of the questions it sound like maybe they changed the version of the Cogat they are giving this year? My two older children also took the Cogat and had very different types of questions. Does anyone know if they're using a different version of the test this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No, SOME of us are perfectly fine. Unfortunately, SOME parents' egos can't handle the rejection when their daughter/son is rejected for AAP. So they commiserate here and plot ways to sneak into the program.

Go away silly troll.

Find one posting on any of the threads in this forum where the commiserating rejected parents are plotting ways to sneak in the system. Really, produce one posting. just one...

Are you serious? Look at the thread where people are talking about how to pay expensive fees for additional tests that will produce magic results to win an appeal. Who loses? The real kids who got in legitimately and have to suffer by having another student in the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son just did the Cogat practice questions yesterday. From his description of some of the questions it sound like maybe they changed the version of the Cogat they are giving this year? My two older children also took the Cogat and had very different types of questions. Does anyone know if they're using a different version of the test this year?

Does it matter which version? No.

It's not as if you are having your kids memorize the practice tests, right? If your child is AAP material, it doesn't matter which version of the test they get.

[Anonymous]

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Are you serious? Look at the thread where people are talking about how to pay expensive fees for additional tests that will produce magic results to win an appeal. Who loses? The real kids who got in legitimately and have to suffer by having another student in the class.

Very ignorant troll. WISC is nationally used to identify gifted and profoundly gifted students.
It's part of complete legitimately process set forth by Fairfax county. Extremely dumb.