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[quote=Anonymous]I am not in fairfax county, but I have skimmed some of the multitude of threads on the topic.  My child is very advanced and has a late summer birthday--so the youngest.  But, we chose an independent school with individualized instruction for just this reason.  This is a mess, and we do not have to deal with it.

The AAP is not a program for gifted learners.  If it was, each student would be administered the WISC not a group test that is notorious for missing gifted children.  AAP is merely tracking starting in third grade.  Holy cow.  (I hate this kind of tracking.  It is so early.)

I think that is why it is acceptable to not account for age.  The school district wanted the rising second graders who scored the best on these tests.  It has nothing to do with age.  If they wanted the most gifted second graders that would have used another test and accounted for age.

I think that if this is what the school district wants, than this is what they get.  It is their rules.

It reminds me of the private school malarky.  The private schools want you WPSSI results.  A 99% on the WPPSI does not mean much.  The test is notoriously unreliable on three and four-year-olds.  You are testing how well the child tests not raw intelligence.  But, that is what the private schools want.  I don't think they care about intelligence.  They want high scoring WPSSI kids because that is the kind of kid they want.[/quote]

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