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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school work samples are crap. But you can't do anything about it. So just focus on what you can control. Get good work samples for yourself to submit and fill out the parent info sheet with a lot of good, thoughtful detail. You're right, the school and the teacher don't know your kid like you know your kid so give as much good info as you can.

In our situation, we had a first year teacher who knew nothing about my child. The comments on the GBRS made that very clear. They were either very generic or they rehashed comments I had put on my parent info form. The work samples were atrocious. We reapplied in third grade with new CogAT scores and work samples of our own (we could submit up to four I believe at the time) and she got in.

However, if you're thinking you'll get more homework in AAP, that is not always the case. My AAP 6th grader has none. [/quote]

Probably a dumb question, but what do you consider a "good" work sample?  A short story?  A book report?  A sheet full of long division?[/quote]

A short story?  Yes, if it shows creativity and is written at a higher level than what you would expect from a 2nd grader.  We submitted a short two or three sentence journal entry because we thought it showed creativity of thought and a different viewpoint.  I honestly don't remember what it said specifically because it's been a few years but something about Christmas lights really being elves for Santa and they catch kids being good.  I can't remember.

A book report?  Probably not unless it showed amazing insight into the book that would be atypical for a 2nd grader.

A sheet full of long division?  Nope.

You're looking for samples that show deeper thinking and creative thought.  A board game that your kid made and wrote out directions too, a presentation they did to share info they learned on their own (yes, I have a kid who does this....she researches stuff and then makes google slide shows that we all have to sit through), a real life math problem that they figured out (like...they wanted a ping pong table in their basement but mom said it wouldn't fit so kid went and did some measuring and researched ping pong tables and figured out it would fit if you put it a certain way or moved furniture)... stuff like that.[/quote]

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