Ugh. DD thought CogAT was hard.
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Anonymous
| Older kid is in AAP and DD thinks she will get in, too, but I’m not feeling too good about her chances. She has a November birthday, too, so doing well on the CogAT will be that much harder. That’s it. Just a vent. |
Anonymous
| Your child will be fine if they don't get into AAP. Deep breaths |
Anonymous
I never said she wouldn’t be fine. But given the choice, she and DH and I would all prefer that she was in. |
Anonymous
I fully understand that. We are hoping to have the choice as well. What about the math was hard for her? Was it the section figuring out the patterns with the multiplication and division? |
Anonymous
It's not like Honors in high school, enrollment isn't open. |
Anonymous
Striver Mommy should prepare herself to be sad... |
Anonymous
I don't get why people think that it is bad that parents want their kids to have options. |
Anonymous
A GT program isn't an "option". A student is either admitted or they aren't. |
Anonymous
| My son thought it was soooo easy. He is 7, just because he thought it was easy does not mean he actually got a good score. |
Anonymous
If you are accepted you can choose to attend or not. If you choose not to attend, you can choose to attend later. So it can be an option. There are people who do not activate the AAP option because they are happy with their kids base school, or the child is in a language immersion program, or the child is at a magnet school, or the parents don't want to separate the child from their friends, or the family has multiple kids and the parents don't want to worry about multiple schools and after care issues. You don't have the option to defer if your child is not accepted. |
Anonymous
Exactly. You're either admitted or you're not. It's not an option or a nice-to-have. |
Anonymous
If AAP were a real GT program, I would agree with you. There's such a huge overlap between the abilities of the top kids in gen ed and the bottom half of AAP that it's hardly surprising for parents of kids in that ability group to want their kids in AAP. It's absurd to want your bright child in a gifted program. It's not absurd to want your bright child in the somewhat inconsistently and arbitrarily selected bright child program that is AAP. |
Anonymous
It is bad to be all butthurt if your kid doesn't make the cut and thus doesn't have options. Don't waste your time on Anger or Bargaining ("maybe if I get Larla tested independently and badger the school system they'll let her be in AAP") -- move on to Acceptance! |
Anonymous
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OP, the Cogat may look easy to an adult but remember, only 2% of 7 year olds nationwide and 10% of 7 year olds in Fairfax County score a 132 or above.
It's not an easy test. |
Anonymous
| Well, there go your chances at UVA. |