Appeal Thoughts

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Anonymous wrote:AAP acceptance is a scam.

Scam based on pushy parents pushing fake work samples and purchased wisc scores.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AAP acceptance is a scam.

Scam based on pushy parents pushing fake work samples and purchased wisc scores.

My kid got accepted with legit (with mistakes even!) work samples and no WISC scores BUT even I will tell you that the process is completely opaque and random.

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1. Do not ever submit wisc scores with initial packet - save for appeal.
2. Use the language from GBRS score sheet on your appeal. Use language from the 4 rating in every category
3. You should have done above with initial packet

Good luck!

Parent of older kids who were all in AAP. Had to submit appeal for at least one. All had original NNAT scores that exceeded the cut off, btw.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else waiting on the appeals decision so that they can decide whether to go private or not?

This really seems drastic. AAP is not all that. You should just go private. I guess I could see this if you are zoned for a lower performing school that doesn’t offer Level IV. But our experience at a center school with one in the program and one not has not been that drastically different. AAP had some good teachers and some not great just like GE. I think 5th grade was the best for my AAP
Kid but they other grades were just so so. And now that one is through middle school, I can definitely say AAP did not matter in middle school. The same teachers teach AAP and Honors(we are at an all Honors MS) there just was much difference.

The peer group matters to us in elementary. That’s why we want AAP. In middle school, yes it doesn’t matter. Because by then our kids can choose honors and be in with other smart kids and the losers with behavior problems won’t be in honors.

SO every kid not in AAP is a loser??? What defines a loser to you? Please go tell all the 7 year olds in general Ed that they are losers and to stay away from your apparent winner. 🙄

That’s not at all what I said.

The Peer group matters and that the losers with behavior problems. Your phrasing implies that those losers with behavior problem who won't be choosing honors classes are all in Gen Ed. So Gen Ed kids are losers with behavior problems. And you want your kid in AAP so they are not around those losers.

Your post lacks an understanding of kids in general. Those loser kids with behavior problems are 6-7 years old when the AAP process begins. Is it possible that they are just kids who are figuring out how to act in school? Or that they are kids with ADHD our Autism or some other explanation for their struggles? Or they are kids whose families are having a rough time for some reason and they are acting out. No, lets just call them losers and try and avoid them.

And some of those kids are going to be in AAP because they are labeled as 2E, twice exceptional. They have an IEP for some reason, that probably explains their behavior issues, and they are bright. They end up in AAP and can act out there. So your bid to get your kid into AAP to avoid "the losers with behavior problems" is likely to fail.

Correct. Losers with behavior problems won’t be choosing honors classes. But not all Gen Ed kids are losers. But there are definitely more losers with behavior problems in gen ed.

And those loser children in Gen Ed will learn to deal with many more types of people in Gen Ed than your weirdo snowflake in AAP who will lack all sorts of social skills, empathy, ability to be inclusive and to deal with diversity.

There’s good and bad kids for every level of intelligence. My kid was bullied in second grade by a kid who went into AAP. Two AAP six graders bullied a younger boy on the bus. My kid was found eligible for AAP but he stayed in general Ed because he prefers to be with the general Ed kids. There was a lot of arrogance with the AAP boys and he didn’t like that and he didn’t have anything in common with them. He’s now an honor student in MS with some really good general Ed kids. There’s also really great AAP kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AAP acceptance is a scam.

Scam based on pushy parents pushing fake work samples and purchased wisc scores.

My kid got accepted with legit (with mistakes even!) work samples and no WISC scores BUT even I will tell you that the process is completely opaque and random.

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