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[quote=Anonymous]I have been around for many years, have had three accepted into AAP, and this year is particularly weird. I don't claim to know what AAP was like when it was a "true gifted program," but ten years ago it seemed that the GBRS was used to get kids with strong executive functions, whose scores were not in pool, into the program.  Most in-pool kids got in, or certainly got in on appeal with a WISC over 130.

I have never until this year heard of kids with such high WISCS not getting in. The WISC has always been considered the gold standard. For whatever reason, more and more weight is being placed on the GRBS, which puts a certain profile of kid at a huge disadvantage. The messy kid, the impulsive kid, the kid with weak fine motor skills. Over-counting the GBRS also allows the most subjective of all the categories to be the most important. Why would FCPS want to do this??? What theory or justification is there to back it?

My kids are in no way profoundly gifted. I would be 100% fine with them in a Gen Ed classroom if there were no AAP. But they have been totally (and easily) successful in AAP with scores in the 130s-140 despite their mediocre GBRS.

I have never had a problem with kids with lower scores getting in. But in what universe does it make sense to design a separate program for hard-working kids who scored 120s on the CoGAT??? Much has been written about kids "needing AAP"... it seems impossible to justify a "need" with these kids.

And how does it make sense to reject my rising 3rd grader with an unprepped CogAT of 135 and a WISC of 136? I am not saying my tax dollars should allow me in--I am saying that I know what the program is like (slightly advanced) and I know that my smart enough, messy handwriting, energetic and disorganized kid--who works above grade level and has always gotten all 4s--can handle it as easily as older siblings can.

I think AAP is suffering from an identity crisis and they have chosen an incredibly strange way to resolve it this year.[/quote]

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