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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A teacher stopped me in the hall and asked to speak to me. This is a teacher who sees all the kids at some point each week (specials teacher). She said she hopes I was applying for aap for one kid because he belonged in aap because of the connections he makes and questions he asks and then she gave me examples of what he says from a paper she had on her desk. This was my younger child. What’s funny is my older kid got a 16 gbrs and this one got a 15. Both got in. Both second grade teachers said the kids would be good candidates for aap. FWIW friends noted the teacher’s were more neutral when they asked if their kids would be good fits

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 :roll: Sure.  Your kids are the most special snowflakes to grace an AAP classroom.  Regular people, however, shouldn't bother asking the teacher, since they will get a very neutral response.  [/quote]

Not at all...the teacher gave the same kid a 15...meaning the specials teacher saw more in the kid then the teacher herself.  Kids got in to the program that year when the teacher of those kids gave a very neutral response whether they should get in.  It's opaque usually.  My "16" gbrs kid wasn't seen as special to the teacher who teaches specials at the school but was seen as more "gifted" to the second grade teacher...

That was the point.[/quote]

What is your opinion? Was the specialist right? Or the classroom teacher? Are they equally advanced in aap? Did they have similar scores?[/quote]

The 16-gbrs kid had 140s on both nnat and cogat, which I am guessing the specials teacher would have no idea about.  The other kid had a pretty average nnat but highish cogat.  I can't recall the score exactly but maybe a 135 or so.  I agree with the specialist in that my one kid stands out to ME that he seems brighter to ME than my other kid but along the way I've seen brighter kids at the school that stand out to ME.  I guess I'd say the kid the teacher made the comment about, probably does stand out to others, but there are a few others (two) like that at the school who are even (far) brighter.  You know kids like that when you see them and I'm talking back in second grade I'd encouter a kid like this and within being around them for a few minutes, you'd know this kid was different.  This isn't your typical smart kid.  [/quote]

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