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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do not understand what the tests measure.

You write,"How moronic is it that we, as a society, identify our gifted students based on what they do/accomplish prior to turning 9?"
 
The testing is not about "what they [i]do/accomplish [/i]prior to turning 9."

The point is a child's [b]aptitude[/b] for learning -- [i]not[/i] a child's accumulated knowledge or accomplishments at the end of second grade.

The point of advanced academics is not rewarding kids for knowing things at age nine. The point is providing additional challenge and stimulation for kids who have the ability to learn faster and in different, more complex ways.[/quote]

That's the point of a gifted program.  The point of AAP in FCPS  is to reward those who do well on the two tests because they were prepped with similar questions prior to the actual test or those who can afford a private tester to give their DCs high WISC scores.  Yes, some naturally gifted kids get in, but they are not the majority.[/quote]

All the obsession with test prep, both in favor of it and against it, seems to live largely on this forum. So does the snarkiness about how only 'naturally gifted' children should have the high privilege of being challenged at school and pushed to do more and exposed to more complex concepts in faster-paced classrooms. Gosh, yes, let's save all that rich educational benefit purely for the "naturally gifted" and not waste it on kids who are only bright, quick, interested and able to learn well.

Unless you're a professional child psychologist or educator specializing in children's intellectual development--how do you know enough to say that "some naturally gifted kids get in but they are not the majority"?

Prepping wasn't on anyone's radar when my kid was in second grade five years ago. No one I knew was prepping kids at all and we didn't know a WISC from a hole in the wall and I don't know today if that was even the test my kid took back then. But the kids who seemed to be, well, smart, the ones who "got it" in class quickly and who could make leaps of thinking that some others didn't, were the kids who got into AAP. So...how did that happen?.....

Maybe the tests actually showed their ability to learn, and not what they already knew?

Glad I'm not going through the AAP application process today. It seems like a nightmare now.[/quote]

You are lucky your child did this five years ago.  [/quote]

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