Who was more involved preparing your kid's AAP file?

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Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

Well with all due respect to your being a long-term FCPS teacher at a center, clearly that doesn't and didn't give you knowledge of what AARTs do at every other school in the FCPS system. If it did you wouldn't be so flummoxed by an AART calling a parent to tell them their child had center scores and that they should fill out a referral form.

Please, if you would, look back and find where I discuss my child "thriving" at a center. Never have. Never will. And if you don't believe the current AAP program is watered down from when it was a gifted program, I'm skeptical that you're a real FCPS teacher. All the ones I keep in touch with (center and otherwise) are pretty appalled by what the program has become).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

Well with all due respect to your being a long-term FCPS teacher at a center, clearly that doesn't and didn't give you knowledge of what AARTs do at every other school in the FCPS system. If it did you wouldn't be so flummoxed by an AART calling a parent to tell them their child had center scores and that they should fill out a referral form.

Please, if you would, look back and find where I discuss my child "thriving" at a center. Never have. Never will. And if you don't believe the current AAP program is watered down from when it was a gifted program, I'm skeptical that you're a real FCPS teacher. All the ones I keep in touch with (center and otherwise) are pretty appalled by what the program has become).

So the AART went to all that trouble and your child didn't thrive in AAP? Now that's sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

Well with all due respect to your being a long-term FCPS teacher at a center, clearly that doesn't and didn't give you knowledge of what AARTs do at every other school in the FCPS system. If it did you wouldn't be so flummoxed by an AART calling a parent to tell them their child had center scores and that they should fill out a referral form.

Please, if you would, look back and find where I discuss my child "thriving" at a center. Never have. Never will. And if you don't believe the current AAP program is watered down from when it was a gifted program, I'm skeptical that you're a real FCPS teacher. All the ones I keep in touch with (center and otherwise) are pretty appalled by what the program has become).

So the AART went to all that trouble and your child didn't thrive in AAP? Now that's sad.

Ha ha ..."all" these FCPS teachers keep in touch with her and share with her how watered down the program is. The AART personally calls her before she (the mother) even gets the scores to tell her to fill out the paperwork. She's fairly removed from the process, however. Thanks for the giggle. What a stitch you are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

Well with all due respect to your being a long-term FCPS teacher at a center, clearly that doesn't and didn't give you knowledge of what AARTs do at every other school in the FCPS system. If it did you wouldn't be so flummoxed by an AART calling a parent to tell them their child had center scores and that they should fill out a referral form.

Please, if you would, look back and find where I discuss my child "thriving" at a center. Never have. Never will. And if you don't believe the current AAP program is watered down from when it was a gifted program, I'm skeptical that you're a real FCPS teacher. All the ones I keep in touch with (center and otherwise) are pretty appalled by what the program has become).

So the AART went to all that trouble and your child didn't thrive in AAP? Now that's sad.

Ha ha ..."all" these FCPS teachers keep in touch with her and share with her how watered down the program is. The AART personally calls her before she (the mother) even gets the scores to tell her to fill out the paperwork. She's fairly removed from the process, however. Thanks for the giggle. What a stitch you are!

Wow. Maybe I've just had a different experience from the rest of your folks. Somehow I've managed to have ongoing relationships with several teachers. Maybe they liked that I accepted what they told me about my kids and didn't try to tell them how to do their jobs?

And again, PP, I'm not sure I got any special treatment at my kid's elementary. I have friends who were contacted by the AART there as well. It was a small school with a great community. In fact, a lot of GT kids chose to stay there. Sorry you didn't have a similar experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

New poster here.

On a side note, I have a very good friend from a military family who moved to a ver good non center school several years ago. Her son is brilliant in an obvious to everyone who merts him way, even more so as an elementary school kid.

About a monty after school started the school did indeed contact them and tell them they really felt he would be better served at the center. He still had to go through tue official fall testing for transfer students, an transfered to the center at semester.

She was unaware of the center program and just assumed the school based pull out services he was receiving at the base school was the gifted program.

OPs post rings true to be based on my friend's experience.

They moved back later when her second son was about the same age as her first kid was when he was identified as level four. Their second kid is bright but not scary brilliant like his older brother. The school did not contact them for the sibling and just let things play out. She got the normal fall testing letter like all the other transfer students and not the person contact of "We have this magnet school for gifted kids and we really think your son belongs there" that they received for their oldest.

Take it for what it is worth but there is at least one other student with a similar experience to that post you all are mocking.

[Anonymous]

New poster here.

On a side note, I have a very good friend from a military family who moved to a ver good non center school several years ago. Her son is brilliant in an obvious to everyone who merts him way, even more so as an elementary school kid.

About a monty after school started the school did indeed contact them and tell them they really felt he would be better served at the center. He still had to go through tue official fall testing for transfer students, an transfered to the center at semester.

She was unaware of the center program and just assumed the school based pull out services he was receiving at the base school was the gifted program.

OPs post rings true to be based on my friend's experience.

They moved back later when her second son was about the same age as her first kid was when he was identified as level four. Their second kid is bright but not scary brilliant like his older brother. The school did not contact them for the sibling and just let things play out. She got the normal fall testing letter like all the other transfer students and not the person contact of "We have this magnet school for gifted kids and we really think your son belongs there" that they received for their oldest.

Take it for what it is worth but there is at least one other student with a similar experience to that post you all are mocking.

I'll have you know I'm mocking the 15 Minute Miracle for reasons other than the AART phone call which, like, totally happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

New poster here.

On a side note, I have a very good friend from a military family who moved to a ver good non center school several years ago. Her son is brilliant in an obvious to everyone who merts him way, even more so as an elementary school kid.

About a monty after school started the school did indeed contact them and tell them they really felt he would be better served at the center. He still had to go through tue official fall testing for transfer students, an transfered to the center at semester.

She was unaware of the center program and just assumed the school based pull out services he was receiving at the base school was the gifted program.

OPs post rings true to be based on my friend's experience.

They moved back later when her second son was about the same age as her first kid was when he was identified as level four. Their second kid is bright but not scary brilliant like his older brother. The school did not contact them for the sibling and just let things play out. She got the normal fall testing letter like all the other transfer students and not the person contact of "We have this magnet school for gifted kids and we really think your son belongs there" that they received for their oldest.

Take it for what it is worth but there is at least one other student with a similar experience to that post you all are mocking.

I'll have you know I'm mocking the 15 Minute Miracle for reasons other than the AART phone call which, like, totally happened.

huh?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

Well with all due respect to your being a long-term FCPS teacher at a center, clearly that doesn't and didn't give you knowledge of what AARTs do at every other school in the FCPS system. If it did you wouldn't be so flummoxed by an AART calling a parent to tell them their child had center scores and that they should fill out a referral form.

Please, if you would, look back and find where I discuss my child "thriving" at a center. Never have. Never will. And if you don't believe the current AAP program is watered down from when it was a gifted program, I'm skeptical that you're a real FCPS teacher. All the ones I keep in touch with (center and otherwise) are pretty appalled by what the program has become).

So the AART went to all that trouble and your child didn't thrive in AAP? Now that's sad.

Ha ha ..."all" these FCPS teachers keep in touch with her and share with her how watered down the program is. The AART personally calls her before she (the mother) even gets the scores to tell her to fill out the paperwork. She's fairly removed from the process, however. Thanks for the giggle. What a stitch you are!

Wow. Maybe I've just had a different experience from the rest of your folks. Somehow I've managed to have ongoing relationships with several teachers. Maybe they liked that I accepted what they told me about my kids and didn't try to tell them how to do their jobs?

And again, PP, I'm not sure I got any special treatment at my kid's elementary. I have friends who were contacted by the AART there as well. It was a small school with a great community. In fact, a lot of GT kids chose to stay there. Sorry you didn't have a similar experience.

Somehow, indeed. I've no doubt that nearly everyone you encounter likes how hands off you are and how you accept everything. Bravo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

New poster here.

On a side note, I have a very good friend from a military family who moved to a ver good non center school several years ago. Her son is brilliant in an obvious to everyone who merts him way, even more so as an elementary school kid.

About a monty after school started the school did indeed contact them and tell them they really felt he would be better served at the center. He still had to go through tue official fall testing for transfer students, an transfered to the center at semester.

She was unaware of the center program and just assumed the school based pull out services he was receiving at the base school was the gifted program.

OPs post rings true to be based on my friend's experience.

They moved back later when her second son was about the same age as her first kid was when he was identified as level four. Their second kid is bright but not scary brilliant like his older brother. The school did not contact them for the sibling and just let things play out. She got the normal fall testing letter like all the other transfer students and not the person contact of "We have this magnet school for gifted kids and we really think your son belongs there" that they received for their oldest.

Take it for what it is worth but there is at least one other student with a similar experience to that post you all are mocking.

I'll have you know I'm mocking the 15 Minute Miracle for reasons other than the AART phone call which, like, totally happened.

Wow. I had a lot of typos!

What on earth are you talking about?

If dcum drives you to mock people perhaps you need a breather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

NP here. How is it irrelevant to state how much time the file it took to prepare an AAP file on a thread about preparing AAP files? PP's experience may not have been yours, but seems all experiences are relevant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

Well with all due respect to your being a long-term FCPS teacher at a center, clearly that doesn't and didn't give you knowledge of what AARTs do at every other school in the FCPS system. If it did you wouldn't be so flummoxed by an AART calling a parent to tell them their child had center scores and that they should fill out a referral form.

Please, if you would, look back and find where I discuss my child "thriving" at a center. Never have. Never will. And if you don't believe the current AAP program is watered down from when it was a gifted program, I'm skeptical that you're a real FCPS teacher. All the ones I keep in touch with (center and otherwise) are pretty appalled by what the program has become).

So the AART went to all that trouble and your child didn't thrive in AAP? Now that's sad.

Ha ha ..."all" these FCPS teachers keep in touch with her and share with her how watered down the program is. The AART personally calls her before she (the mother) even gets the scores to tell her to fill out the paperwork. She's fairly removed from the process, however. Thanks for the giggle. What a stitch you are!

Wow. Maybe I've just had a different experience from the rest of your folks. Somehow I've managed to have ongoing relationships with several teachers. Maybe they liked that I accepted what they told me about my kids and didn't try to tell them how to do their jobs?

And again, PP, I'm not sure I got any special treatment at my kid's elementary. I have friends who were contacted by the AART there as well. It was a small school with a great community. In fact, a lot of GT kids chose to stay there. Sorry you didn't have a similar experience.

Somehow, indeed. I've no doubt that nearly everyone you encounter likes how hands off you are and how you accept everything. Bravo.

Clearly, that's not the case, as evidenced by the blowback I've gotten on this thread.

I do think, for whatever reasons, that some people are threatened by the thought that some parents aren't steering their kid's entire school experience. I mean, sheesh, you say you're friendly with your kid's teachers and suddenly that means you're somehow manipulating them for your kid's future benefit. You can't just maybe, like them. My mom was a teacher, I get teachers and I respect what they're trying to do. Like everyone else, I click with some, have less use for others but I've got much better things to do than try game them for my kid's sake.

What I had hoped to offer was a perspective from a parent who didn't spend a lot of time worrying about the GT/AAP process and let the system take care of it, which is what I did. I felt it might provide a counterpoint to some of the hysteria -- a loaded word, I know, but unfortunately, the only one that is appropriate -- surrounding this process. I mean, on other thread in the AAP forum, you have parents of kids with 15-16 GBRS's and high in-pool scores worrying that their kids won't get in and that the parents won't have the evidence to appeal. That's just nuts! Once again, you have to wonder how we ever got here.

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Anonymous wrote:Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out. I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form. I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out. If true, please do tell: school name and AART name.

Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details. If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form. Everyone wins!

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not. I know what the facts are. I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent. Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted. Who knows? So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this. It's really sad.

Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.

So true. It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.) I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.

New poster here.

On a side note, I have a very good friend from a military family who moved to a ver good non center school several years ago. Her son is brilliant in an obvious to everyone who merts him way, even more so as an elementary school kid.

About a monty after school started the school did indeed contact them and tell them they really felt he would be better served at the center. He still had to go through tue official fall testing for transfer students, an transfered to the center at semester.

She was unaware of the center program and just assumed the school based pull out services he was receiving at the base school was the gifted program.

OPs post rings true to be based on my friend's experience.

They moved back later when her second son was about the same age as her first kid was when he was identified as level four. Their second kid is bright but not scary brilliant like his older brother. The school did not contact them for the sibling and just let things play out. She got the normal fall testing letter like all the other transfer students and not the person contact of "We have this magnet school for gifted kids and we really think your son belongs there" that they received for their oldest.

Take it for what it is worth but there is at least one other student with a similar experience to that post you all are mocking.

Thank you, PP. Sounds very similar to my experience. When we moved here from overseas, I didn't even know a special "advanced" program existed, which was why I was so grateful to the AART for reaching out. It was ten years ago, however, so perhaps with forums like these newcomers are now less clueless.