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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WHo cares? This is irrelevant. [/quote]
I believe FCPS should care as[b] I am quite certain they are going to face a major class action against them.[/b]Simply put the lack of age-adjusting (I am shocked to hear that this is the case!) is a blatant age discrimination: the youngest kids in 2nd grade are screwed in favor of older kids. 
Sure, you have the alternative to go for the WISC, but:
1. One should not be forced to pay for such a test just because someone at FCPS screwed up the COGAT test administration. If this year's class has, say, 13k kids, I can easily see 1/4 of them moving against FCPS asking it to pay for the test. That could end up being a $1.5 Million tab for FCPS (up to 3k kids at $500 per kid)

2. Let's say that some families decide to sue FCPS just because their borderline kids did not get into AAP and they 'had to opt for private schools in order to get the education that their kids deserved but were denied because of FCPS's age discriminative practices'. The cost per child could end up being $30k/year times four years: $120k. Let's 100 families decide to pursue and sue FCPS to recover this cost, we are looking at $12 million (plus legal fees).

One thing is certain, someone at FCPS screwed up big time and they (FCPS) will end up paying for that. [b]If the age-discriminative COGAT test scores are allowed in the AAP review, FCPS may be opening itself up to major legal action[/b].[/quote]

You assume that there are thousands of summer birthday children whose scores were just shy of the cut off for [i]the automatic pool[/i] who would have made the pool if only the test was age adjusted.

That might not be the case at all.

It might very well be a very tiny number of kids who are affected and whose scores were just enough outside of the cutoff for age norming to make a difference.

And in that group, many of them might have qualified already with their nnat score.  So that makes the number even tinier.

Let's say those remaining kids parent refer, and most of them get in (or at least those whose nnat's were just outside the cut off)  How on earth does that justify a class action lawsuit?

If you kid's scores are outside the margin for which age norming would have made a difference, then you have no argument at all.

Also, saying that the older kids are taking spots from the younger kids is not a valid argument either.  FCPS allows for every child who qualifies to have a space in AAP.  There is no cap.  So those leagues of older kids that you are talking about are not taking a space from anyone else.  [/quote]

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