Gifted kid did not get through AAP - HELP please

[Anonymous]

DS score:
NNAT - 160
COGAT - 143
Submitted multiple awards and recognitions he got outside school .
Excellent review by his teacher who keeps stressing that his thinking is beyond grade level in MAth, science, social studies and behavior.
We obtained screening file. This year they have not done GBRS rating.
Rejected

DS has been extremely advanced in Math, science, social studies and history. His samples that we submitted was extremely difficult for what a normal 2nd grader would do. DS had always been identified as a gifted till Grade 1. Grade 2 has been extremely boring for him and his school samples that were given were draw something and write a creative explanation. DS is very high in factual and inferring reasoning, and his drawing abilities and thinking imaginatively is not that good. When I ask him to think beyond his normal imagination he says his mind tells him whether it is possible or not and he gets back to factual way of thinking and inferring (more data, memory, facts based approach).

His school samples that were submitted were extremely poor in nature where he was asked to think and write a creative story. But his home sample were real life questions where he used science and math (whatever he knew) to answer. The comparison happened on a home sample which was extremely advanced science/math and school sample which was an imaginative story writing which is not DS’s strength.

His teacher believes he is gifted in science math social studies and factual based reasoning.

We are getting his WISC tests, giving more factual based samples he made in school, to prove his knowledge and attention to details and his inferring and thinking skills.

We are at a loss as to what to do for this gifted child. He says school is super boring and they always wants him to draw pictures and write stories.

DS runs a YouTube channel for experiments, he composed his music (different tunes), performs (singing) in multiple languages. He has got awards like young scientist award, outstanding student award in karate, musician award. We had submitted all this and still got rejected. AART teacher thinks they think home samples are at a level that cannot be done by a 2nd grader. All his other home samples are at the same level. I really don’t know how to convince that he is exceptionally talented. Hoping for a good WISC score.

Any help from anyone in this situation would be apprceiated

[Anonymous]

Cont from above,

is there a way we can request fcps to talk to him? The home samples he provided were his projects he did (not a work in a day, but a couple of weeks, where he understands a concept and applied that concept to solve real world problems).

[Anonymous]

They somehow believe the home samples cannot even be done by a 2nd grader and someone else did this for him (atleast AART teacher thinks that way). However his class teacher believes that she knows he can easily do this and she says he has more knweldge in some ideas than her and his mental math and problem solving abilities is even better than herself. As his parents, he beats us in math calculation. For example, as a 2nd grader, DS knows not just multiplication, division, he can divide upto decimals, understand fractions, conceptnofmprime and now wants to learns about power of numbers and square root. And even when we ask him to wait till he can learn, he begs for us to teach him.

I don’t know how he can thrive in FCPS, if they don’t even recognize him for AAP. But I am so glad his teacher recommends.

[Anonymous]

Honestly? You should calm down just a little. He isn’t just doing writing and thinking about fantasy situations in school. It is typical to give every kid certain papers to ask them to write what someone is doing and then submit that as part of the package because it is based on a professionally developed sheet to tease out answers from kids for processes like aap selection. Second, the majority of what you wrote, it is all conclusions as you see your child. A YouTube channel doesn’t really make him gifted. If he’s that bright- schedule a wisc and all should be fine. That’s your best hope and if he’s gifted as you firmly believe he will ace it.

[Anonymous]

How do the home work samples compare to the in school work samples? Send in more in school work samples.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They somehow believe the home samples cannot even be done by a 2nd grader and someone else did this for him (atleast AART teacher thinks that way). However his class teacher believes that she knows he can easily do this and she says he has more knweldge in some ideas than her and his mental math and problem solving abilities is even better than herself. As his parents, he beats us in math calculation. For example, as a 2nd grader, DS knows not just multiplication, division, he can divide upto decimals, understand fractions, conceptnofmprime and now wants to learns about power of numbers and square root. And even when we ask him to wait till he can learn, he begs for us to teach him.

I don’t know how he can thrive in FCPS, if they don’t even recognize him for AAP. But I am so glad his teacher recommends.

None of this is out of the box thinking. Is his only strength math?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do the home work samples compare to the in school work samples? Send in more in school work samples.

Sorry I read more of the post. If he’s so smart I can’t believe everything that got sent home this year was complete crap so scrounge around and find more in school stuff to submit. You’ve messed up by making it look like a lie. I guess write a letter explaining his difficulties in school this year but don’t pooh Pooh imagination in your own mind bc I think that’s a GBRS question.

I don’t usually think people HAVE to use GMU but I think you should given the truthfulness issue you’re having.

[Anonymous]

With those CogAt & NNAT scores I would definitely appeal.
Did you submit a parent letter?

[Anonymous]

That was an example. His one of the work sample is a restaurant sales table. His imagination sales numbers and how he tracked them. Money he made,?items he sold, etc. He used his math to infer. And all his samples were applying math or science to solve problems like this.

[Anonymous]

Me again but everyone has strengths and weaknesses. He should work on story writing etc. if he says it’s boring you should understand that to mean it’s bc it’s hard for him not bc he’s so smart. This post illustrates why it grates my nerves when people say their kid is bored in school like that means they’re better than everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Inwillsubmit a parent letter this time.. last time we did not submit any letter (just the questionnaire and referral form).we did not know we could even submit a cover letter, but this we were told by his teacher to explain how he can eup with those samples (situation) and what made him think like that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? You should calm down just a little. He isn’t just doing writing and thinking about fantasy situations in school. It is typical to give every kid certain papers to ask them to write what someone is doing and then submit that as part of the package because it is based on a professionally developed sheet to tease out answers from kids for processes like aap selection. Second, the majority of what you wrote, it is all conclusions as you see your child. A YouTube channel doesn’t really make him gifted. If he’s that bright- schedule a wisc and all should be fine. That’s your best hope and if he’s gifted as you firmly believe he will ace it.

Thanks,,his teacher review in GBRS is actually better than what I have written about him here. She recognizes that his thinking, creativity in his areas of interest is beyond his age agroup, his knowledge on facts and inferences is surprising.

Yes as you said , we are getting him evaluated using WISC. And sending better school samples only.

[Anonymous]

Is he from FCPS or private ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is he from FCPS or private ?

She said AART so I gleaned FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is he from FCPS or private ?

FCPS