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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Local standards are for Principal Placement. There will be a district cut off for in-pool scores and there will be local cut offs for Principal Placement. [/quote]

That’s not what the Island Creek AART said today. (And we’re not a center school, so there is no principal placement here). She was very explicit that the county is making a change this year, and that each school will have its own cut off for in-pool scores. It’s always possible she’s wrong, but that’s what she told us.[/quote]

That would be a huge change. Massive. And kind of bullshit.

I have no problem with Principal Placement for Local Level IV and Principals placing kids who were not in-pool but I think that a county wide pool score is fine. Most kids have a local option for Level IV. I fail to see why that needs to change.

Do we really think that kids whose school sets an in-pool score of 120 to send to the Committee are likely to get those kids accepted? Teachers can refer kids not in pool who they think belong in AAP.[/quote]

The GFES AART said that while some schooled may have a higher average, there is no limit to how many kids can be accepted from each school.  She mentioned that the in pool average is set by the county.
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The recommendation by the school board from last year was the use the [i]lower of[/i] the building score or the in-pool score. Don't know if that applies this year. Our AART specifically said they won't publish a score district-wide any more because it varies by building. She said ours is right around 132, same as the usual county-wide.

Eventually they plan to use local committees, so local scores will make more sense. Eventually level IV will be glorified level III.[/quote]

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