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I don't think this is correct.  I think the committee knows what they are doing and we don't.[/quote]

You have a lot of faith in a very arbitrary process.  Let me guess:  your child was borderline and got in, so you want to think the committee saw something special in your child?  Of course you find the idea more palatable that the committee are experts and "knew" that your child was gifted, rather than that your child lucked out from the arbitrariness of the process.

Based on the kids I've worked with in AAP, I'm pretty sure that the committee has no clue what it's doing.  Also, the AART at my school who has been part of the process for over 20 years doesn't seem to think the committee knows what it's doing.

Just to give an example, my child's 5th grade AAP math teacher has ecart configured such that for every test, you can see the number of kids who got each problem wrong.  There are a lot of kids in that class who don't understand the math and clearly need a slower paced math class.  The problems are pretty basic, and they're still getting a lot of them wrong.   The committee, in all of their wisdom, placed these kids into a program in which the math is moving too fast for them, and as a result, these kids will have very poor foundations for all future math.  Likewise, in the 6th grade AAP classrooms, half of the kids not only didn't pass the IAAT, but they weren't even close to the cutoff.  [/quote]

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