AAP - What was the 2021-22 pool cut-off for your school?

[Anonymous]

It’s only cogat that’s considered (not NNAT) and loot like in high SES schools 5 or 10% kids have scored more than 140.
That’s why there is a parent referral. More than half of referral kids get in. Also race matters, Asian and white kid needs more to get in than AA and Hispanic -It’s says in the independent consultant report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the contrary, Title 1 kids get many advantages from the public school system -- elegible for free full day preschool aka Head Start, mandatory small classes etc. Far more resources are spent on these schools than others.

Title I kids have those programs because they don’t have parents who are reading to them or doing math with them or coloring with them. They are starting behind the kids from middle class and higher income families. Title I parents cannot afford to send their kids to daycare, never mind a daycare that has any academic offering.

There are non-Title I kids in these programs, they are the kids with disabilities and challenges that need more specific help in order to potentially succeed in school.

Are those the services that you want?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I don't think anyone is against lower the pool number if need be for a specific school, what people are against is raising it in other schools.

The point you're missing is that gen ed + advanced math at a high SES school is more rigorous and better than AAP at a high poverty center. The people on dcum who complain that AAP is too watered down, too easy, and barely above gen ed are the people with kids in the centers that now have lower cutoffs. No matter how much they lower the in-pool threshold or broaden acceptance, those kids still aren't getting any advantages over the kids in the high SES schools.

Also, a higher pool doesn't necessarily mean fewer acceptances. The pool doesn't serve any purpose at all in higher SES areas, because everyone will parent refer their above average children. They could abolish the pool altogether in the high SES schools, and nothing would change.

IME, Gen-Ed and advanced math at a high SES ES school is plenty, the same can be said for Honors vs AAP in MS. They are all mixed together again in HS and you can’t tell who was in which.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Woah this is kind of crazy

Bet those of you who live in McLean and Great Falls are seriously regretting it now, LOL!

not gonna lie, we moved last year from a title one school to a better pyramid in Falls Church and this was not what I had in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woah this is kind of crazy

Bet those of you who live in McLean and Great Falls are seriously regretting it now, LOL!

not gonna lie, we moved last year from a title one school to a better pyramid in Falls Church and this was not what I had in mind.

I'm confused. Do you care more about the label, or do you care more about the education your child will be receiving? Gen ed + advanced math in a high SES school will be more advanced and have a smarter peer group than AAP in a lower SES center. My kid attended a lower SES center, and it was very underwhelming. AAP 5th and 6th grade math were exactly identical to gen ed math, but given one year earlier. There were no AAP extensions at all. AAP language arts was my kid being ignored by the teacher since she had to work with struggling kids. AAP science and social studies were a lot of lame "projects" where they had to create google slides with a partner. My kid always was saddled with the kids who were struggling or unmotivated. You're really, truly not missing out on anything by moving to a high SES school and potentially not getting into AAP.