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[quote=Anonymous]For everyone saying that you did not notice favoritism at your school, that’s great.  I am glad you are a school that values fairness.

When I started thinking about AAP I asked this board if I should do anything special with the teachers and principal at DC’s school, and everyone said “no.”  Then I actually went through the process and saw how unfairly the school tanked my kid in GBRS, despite scores well into the 99th percentile.

The county AAP committee puts more weight on GBRS than anything else.  Those scores are incredibly subjective and if you are at a school like mine where you are not spending tons of time volunteering and kissing up, and have a kid who is super smart but also very quiet, you are going to get hit on the GBRS.  The teachers know how to score the GBRS to telegraph “accept this kid” or “don’t accept this kid.”

We got in on Appeal after a lot of energy went into counteracting the poor GBRS with work samples, additional testing, and a very carefully crafted parent essay.  So maybe I should look at this more positively and say the process eventually worked and my DC got in after appeal, but it was so much rockier than it needed to be given the biases of the local school.

So make sure you are talking to the teacher, the AART and the principal about your kid now.  Get lots of face time and volunteer for lots of committees.  I also agree with the previous poster about telling your kid to raise their hand, do the extra busy work, and add silly flourishes to their work because that is apparently the stereotype teachers are looking for.[/quote]

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