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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My third grader was in pool for AAP but didn't get in. I assumed he would principal placed, but that is not the case. We got the letter in the spring that he was level 3 math and his test scores are in the 95-99 percentile.

Less than 10 kids are officially in the AAP program that didn't leave for a centered and at Open House we saw a few kids we know we're not even in pool or parent referred in the AAP class.

We are at a loss on how we didn't end up in and some others did knowing what we know.

How would you proceed? I already scheduled a meeting with the principal to discuss.

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First of all, math is really all you should care about academically.  The "deep learning" in other subjects is not deep at all.  But the math acceleration is real.

Second, not being in AAP frequently affects parents more than the children.  
We want our children to be resilient in the face of adversity.  We should strive to be resilient as well.  This is a relatively meaningless feather in a particularly meaningless cap.

The principal referrals are kind of bullshit.  We really ought to get rid of them.  But the fact that some kids don't deserve to be there doesn't mean your kid deserves to be there.
However, I do think there ought to be a test score above which the committee must accept a kid no matter what the GBRS says.  I have met too many biased teachers (going both ways) to think that their assessments are unbiased.[/quote]

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