Gifted kid did not get through AAP - HELP please

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was that the cogat cumulative score or highest section?

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Think this poster meant composite score or section with highest score

Since this hasn't been answered, is it that he got a high score in one section of the CogAT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was that the cogat cumulative score or highest section?

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Think this poster meant composite score or section with highest score

Since this hasn't been answered, is it that he got a high score in one section of the CogAT?

Composite is 143

[Anonymous]

What types of math or science are you talking about specifically?

[Anonymous]

It’s a good life lesson...not everyone gets in/wins. You have a very bright child....be happy for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a good life lesson...not everyone gets in/wins. You have a very bright child....be happy for that.

You made my day!!! Thanks so much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a good life lesson...not everyone gets in/wins. You have a very bright child....be happy for that.

I'm guessing your child was found eligible or you are not in the boundary of a crazy center school where are the kids tell your kid they aren't in the smart class regularly and where the principal allocates all the best teachers and resources to AAP instead of gen ed. Good for you and your child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How can they tell the difference between hot housed and normal kids, lol?

My friend's son got in with very low scores but a decent GBRS. Why is he more "deserving" than someone like OP's kid? The whole process is nuts.

Idk. This poster here says there was discrepancy between school work samples and home work samples. That probably raised a red flag.
Other things I would personally look at include whether outside activities are Kahn academy type things or more child led activities such as Odyssey of the Mind.

He had great recommendation from his odyssey of mind teacher too along with singing teacher. He also had an outstanding student award in karate. The areas of extra curricular are his areas he selected. He dislikes sports soccer etc, he is interested in chess and we send him to what he is interested in.

No disrespect intended, but why have recommendations from the singing and karate teachers? What do singing and karate have to do with advanced academics? Didn’t they change the name so people would stop sending in material that were not related specifically to academics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all your comments. When teachers in every parent teacher meet say he is extremely advanced for his age, and when they write that even in the GBRS comments, especially in the highlighted skills of math science and social studies, parents will think their kid is advanced. Further when some coaches for STEM or even activities like Music, singing say he amazes them, parents make conclusions and sometimes you never realize your kids and only know when others tell you.

We are awaiting his WISC scores,the report. But the meeting after the test, the psychologist said, “his thinking and application skills is excellent, his factual reasoning is very high and sometimes those kids with high factual skills fair less on verbal creative writing”.

Anyway, whoever is just making assumptions on our kids, please stop. I am not defending any parent here, If you have a suggestion, pls do, we also struggle as a parent, and it hurts when your kid says it is boring at school, they only tell you about solid liquid gases, and I want to experiment on it, I want to ask my teacher why we can’t hold gas but can hold ice cube, but all other kids scream, and my teacher can’t answer me and just ask me to write this. We are looking for ways, when we think our child is gifted, it is not because we assume, because we are told continuously by people, coaches, teachers we meet that they are so. when we look at our kids, we look at them without any adjectives. And adjectives are added genuinely by people who mentor them and we learn a lot about our kids from them and also on our interaction.

So pls do help parents when they are in unique situations rather than judging that parent just think kids are gifted.

Wow, you got him tested fast. I'm really surprised you got that feedback already. Also, the WISC isn't measuring "high factual skills" or creative writing, I hope you got it done at GMU. Additionally, if the child is as gifted as you portray, the SB would have been a better test for him because of ceiling effects on the WISC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all your comments. When teachers in every parent teacher meet say he is extremely advanced for his age, and when they write that even in the GBRS comments, especially in the highlighted skills of math science and social studies, parents will think their kid is advanced. Further when some coaches for STEM or even activities like Music, singing say he amazes them, parents make conclusions and sometimes you never realize your kids and only know when others tell you.

We are awaiting his WISC scores,the report. But the meeting after the test, the psychologist said, “his thinking and application skills is excellent, his factual reasoning is very high and sometimes those kids with high factual skills fair less on verbal creative writing”.

Anyway, whoever is just making assumptions on our kids, please stop. I am not defending any parent here, If you have a suggestion, pls do, we also struggle as a parent, and it hurts when your kid says it is boring at school, they only tell you about solid liquid gases, and I want to experiment on it, I want to ask my teacher why we can’t hold gas but can hold ice cube, but all other kids scream, and my teacher can’t answer me and just ask me to write this. We are looking for ways, when we think our child is gifted, it is not because we assume, because we are told continuously by people, coaches, teachers we meet that they are so. when we look at our kids, we look at them without any adjectives. And adjectives are added genuinely by people who mentor them and we learn a lot about our kids from them and also on our interaction.

So pls do help parents when they are in unique situations rather than judging that parent just think kids are gifted.

Wow, you got him tested fast. I'm really surprised you got that feedback already. Also, the WISC isn't measuring "high factual skills" or creative writing, I hope you got it done at GMU. Additionally, if the child is as gifted as you portray, the SB would have been a better test for him because of ceiling effects on the WISC.

Norm in gmu at a private practitioner. GMU is done by grad students and I wanted someone more experienced to do these. Does it matter as they are all licensed. My psychologist said she will also send a copy of her license that I need to submit it seems

[Anonymous]

All coaches tell parents their kid is doing amazing. Think about it - why would the coach want to say anything else? They want the kid to keep coming back and praising the parent who is the one paying is a good way to guarantee that. My kid was destined to be a star at lacrosse/soccer/basketball/acting/painting according to all her extracurricular coaches and teachers. Hint: she didn’t become a star at any of those

Kids get bored at school because school is sometimes pretty boring. Doesn’t matter if your kid is in AAP or not, he will still tell you he is bored.

The problem you are likely facing is that your child is great with math and scence - both concrete subjects but has average abstract reasoning skills and this effects his abilities in reading, reading comprehension and writing activities. You can very likely get him in on appeal but watch out when he starts saying he is bored in classes requiring sustained reading and a lot of writing. He isn’t bored so much as he is struggling.

[Anonymous]

Seems strange that a psychologist would give immediate feedback on a kid’s performance on the WISC before even scoring the test. ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems strange that a psychologist would give immediate feedback on a kid’s performance on the WISC before even scoring the test. ?

Not really since the feedback the poster mentioned was generic and it seemed to hint that some sub scores were inot going to be what the parent expected.
But then again the Op might be making this whole thread up for entertainment purposes. Notwithstanding that, I have no doubt other real poster/readers will be in this situation and could benefit from the info on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What types of math or science are you talking about specifically?

I don’t see anything written that shows this kid is gifted. Could you be specific as to what you mean?