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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think my child was judged unfairly last year with a poor HOPE rating by an inexperienced teacher but good test scores (130+ on both NNAT and COGAT). We sent in some work samples last year, but don't really have anything to submit this year and honestly I think my child's grades and scores should be good enough to get in to AAP (mostly 4s, all 4s in math and great iReady scores). Do I REALLY need to submit work samples? Has anyone here had their child get in with good test scores, good HOPE rating, and no work samples? This year's teacher really likes my child and our child is in Level II for math.[/quote]

If your child isn't in the advanced math class, they're behind other current AAP students and its harder to catch up (and justify their inclusion).  Most of the later grade add-ins are LLIV students, or at least ones that have been placed in the AAP classroom for math.

130+ isnt very specific.  131 is less than 99%.  139, and your child was passed over and you should be pissed.  Lower 130's is good enough to not be the reason for rejection, but likely will require justifications and rationale for inclusion, especially since they were passed over the first time.  Focus on why their needs are not being met in General Classroom, and how it's holding them back; not why they're deserving, or how smart they are...[/quote]

[b]At our center several kids were principal placed into AAP in 4th due to class size issues. [/b]Some caught up well even without push-in advanced math in 3rd (which was implemented two years after the principal placing started). Some did not. OP probably knows her own kid and knows how well they will handle a jump.

Plus now 3rd grade advanced math is just extensions to the gen ed curriculum instead of doing half of 4th grade math (thanks E3 Math!), so it's not the jump it used to be. 5th will be the big intense year, like the schools that didn't have advanced math until 5th have always been.[/quote]

No they weren’t. They reapplied and got in.  Center schools don’t have principal placement and no principal is risking their job to do that.

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Some Centers do. I am not sure why this has to be repeated. Very few schools follow FCPS policies when it comes to AAP. There are people who have posted on this site about their kids being Principal Placed at a Center school. It isn't suppose to happen but it does, [/quote]

Original poster who talked about principal placing and PP is not me. The parents of these kids were close friends and [i]told me[/i] it was principal placement. They did not reapply and some never applied in the first place! We had issues with a big full-time AAP class followed by 2 small ones followed by another big one and I assume they didn't want to keep moving teachers around, so they principal placed.[/quote]

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