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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP. I just have to say you all are great!! I wish we could meet for coffee and talk! Appreciate the thoughtful replies.

I don't think AART likes me... I don't know what it is.. I might have rubbed her off the wrong way with my questions at the information sessions. But maybe that's my perception. I don't get any decent responses or insight into this program. I think she's extremely knowledgeable but I don't believe all kids are getting the same opportunities.

The bottom line is that my daughter is the respectful kind. She's is not the super vocal one. Big pontifcator. She listens. She doesn't interrupt others. But she enthusiastically participates and is very focused on success.

She had a school project that was a group project. She came home and spent 3 hours on a Friday optimizing the presentation flow and scripts for her 3 teammates, directed the effort. and came up with the creative concept. When the project was going the "let's just do a poster" ... she rallied the team to think bigger and put a vision of something more special and got the buy in. But that's not going to show up at school. Much of that collaboration happened outside of school.  I put all kinds of examples like this in my first referral ( not this one as it happened later).

My point is that in classes with 25 kids, 700 kids in the school with one AART - I feel a kid has to push to stand out if that's NOT your natural state. It's not her. The school input and my input completely clashed.  The two should tell a unified story. The school didn't support my observations. It feels like me against the school committee. It's not about her teacher simply liking her.. I meant that in that class and the conversations she brings home based on learning, I can't believe the teacher would have dinged her one the GBRS. I feel the other could have skewed it down if they gave input. the AART and principal can't get a good read in 10 minutes of interaction which was what my concern is.[/quote]

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