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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can you know he was rejected because of having an IEP, and not just because of his poor grades? You are concluding that his grades were low because his IEP was not followed, but how can a committee be sure that this was the reason? I can imagine a committee wanting to give a spot to a child with higher grades that it thinks would get more out of the program.[/quote]

Each committee was made aware of all the information. Grades shot up in 5th grade when the IEP was followed, and there is proof of that.
I am NOT saying my child deserved an outright acceptance, since obviously other students have stellar grades AND test scores!

I am saying that he should have been waitlisted from the beginning, and that I strongly suspect the fact he had an IEP pushed the balance towards a rejection from the first selection committee.
The timing of waitlist placement is important, because the sooner you are placed there, the most likely you are to be picked out of it when accepted students start declining their spots to go to the other magnet program - there are two, and often students apply to both and then choose which one they wish to attend, if they are accepted to both (my child only applied for one).

It's complicated, I know. [/quote]

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