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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Tis is why I am glad parents are not allowed to volunteer in the class room. A writing sample or struggling with a concept does not show a kid is not smart.[/b] Ten they go and talk about the Kia on their limited experience and intelligence. [/quote]

Agree.

I have one kid who since he was around 6 months old, everyone (teachers, doctors, other parents) would tell me how "advanced" he was.  When he got to school, it became even more obvious.  This is the kid that parents, particularly those who volunteered in the classroom, would say "Of course he is in AAP"

Another one of my kids struggled to complete assignments, would get frustrated, overwhelmed, say he couldn't do things, act out when he wasn't able to do the assignment, etc.  Certainly anyone who volunteered in the classroom, and even myself and my husband, would never have pegged him as a "gifted" student.  He is just so far from what someone would think of when you think a kid who needs acceleration.  In fact, if he was just some random kid and I was a parent volunteer, I would have pegged him as a bit of a troublemaker and a kid who is struggling and maybe needs help on the opposite end.

[i]However[/i], since kindergarten, the teachers and even the counselors have been pegging him as a kid who needs gifted services.  Every teacher since kindergarten has told me he needs to go into AAP, that he his "gifted", that he is in a different place than most kids his age.  Quite frankly, I am stumped.  He doesn't fit the stereotype of what a gifted kid looks like in the way his older sibling does.  He struggles in school, yet they keep saying he needs more.  I was pushing for remediation; they recommended acceleration and pull out services.

Don't assume that you as a volunteer parent with just a snapshot of the students knows how to identify which kids do/do not belong in AAP.  You might be surprised and you might be way off base.

If the feedback from the teachers, counselors and AART are any indication, we were certainly misguided.

I guess they can see something with their training that the untrained and perhaps biased parent cannot.

So my best recommendation from our experience is that you focus on your kid only, and don't worry about what services you think someone else's kid should or should not be receiving.  There is more to it than meets the untrained eye.[/quote]

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