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Privileged white people are good at gaming the system.  They can't accept that their kids are in the average range, so instead they shop for a psychologist to label their kids with a disability, so they can get a 504.  Then, they prep for the CogAT while pretending that they're not prepping.  Their kids still get 115-120ish scores, but they parent refer in droves and craft packets designed to get their average or slightly above average kids in.

White kids are overrepresented in 504s.  They're also overrepresented in parent referrals, with a ratio near 1:2 for in-pool: referrals.  I'm not bothered by the schools lowering the standard for URMs, since the biggest culprits of gaming the system and shoving their unqualified kids in are upper middle class white people.

Before anyone accuses me of racism, I am white and socialize with plenty of other white people.  Every kid in my neighborhood was found AAP eligible.  Most of those kids are somewhat above average, got 120-ish test scores after prepping (yes, people talked about prepping at the bus stop), had their parents spend a lot of time crafting the parent referrals, and got in.  Many of them are now convinced that their kids are "gifted," despite their kids' low SOL and IAAT scores.  [/quote]

Maybe... just maybe, those same parents want something more challenging for their kids than the default offering.  I'd say if parents want more academic rigor, give it to them.[/quote]

I agree completely with the second sentence.  I'd love to see more rigor in both AAP and gen ed.

For the first sentence, I think that's the reason Asian parents prep their kids and push them into AAP.  It's not the case for many white parents.  They don't want more rigor.  They are the ones who want AAP watered down so their snowflakes don't struggle.  They're the ones whining that AAP math is too fast.  They're the ones looking for reassurance after their kid gets a 430 on a SOL test or isn't on grade level in iready that their kid still totally is gifted and belongs in AAP.   At least among the people I know, the base school is very strong and offers advanced math in 3rd, above grade reading groups, high quality pull-outs for LIII, and other neat opportunities only for the LIII kids.  These parents don't want that.  They desperately want the label.  They need to believe that their average range kids are gifted, but either "have a disability" that they shopped for or are "bad test takers."   I've literally had a parent tell me that she prepped her Larla for the test, Larla still got only a 120, but the committee saw something special in her packet and recognized Larla's giftedness.   :roll:   [/quote]

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