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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/review/ExecutiveSummary.pdf

Recommendations for Identification Procedures

Continue to seek ways to identify an AAP population that is congruent with the general demographics of FCPS, increasing diversity of historically under- represented populations (African Americans, Hispanics, ESOL students, and students eligible for free- or reduced-price lunch).[/quote]

For those of you who say absolutely not, how would you explain this?[/quote]

It means they intend to spend more time identifying smart children who historically do not have as much societal/community/parental support as other more over represented populations.  It says nothing about lowering the standards for admission.

If anything, based on what I read on DCUM it is the over represented populations that have higher %'s of borderline/questionable students in AAP since they are more likely to have been prepped and pushed beyond their actual abilities. [/quote]

Why would they need to spend more time identifying them?  All fcps 2nd graders are screened.  It's not like when I was in school where the only kids who were tested were those selected by their teachers.  [/quote]

You need to ask FCPS to find out what specific things they are doing to identify students who are historically over looked.[/quote]

It didn't seem to help our hispanic child :)  DS scores between 80-90% on most of the testing he received (CogAT, NNAT).  DS wasn't in-pool for Level IV AAP, and we didn't parent refer.  He has received pull-outs for his strong subject since first grade, and is currently in Level III AAP.  I spoke about the program with his second grade teacher, and she wasn't overly supportive.  I asked the school about Young Scholars, which is listed on their web-site, but was informed his Level III pull-outs would be what he receives.  We haven't noticed anyone do anything extra for DS, and he is first-generation American with parents from Latin America.[/quote]

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