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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the 22:32 PP:
How can you justify the teachers’ and committee members decisions when so many kids who were accepted to AAP aren’t getting pass advanced (sometimes aren’t even passing) SOLs and are massively bombing the IAAT.  Most of the kids in AAP are pretty mediocre and unremarkable in every way.  [/quote]

What is your basis to say "Most of the kids in AAP are pretty mediocre and unremarkable" . Do you have hard data to prove it?
Your are definitely exaggerating when saying AAP students bomb the IAAT. The IAAT is not  a hard test by any means and majority of students who take Algebra 1 are from AAP which means they scores above 90. Also saying [/quote]

I've worked extensively with AAP students.  For the most part, they're generically bright, privileged kids with educated parents who have received a lot of enrichment.  I agree that IAAT is not a hard test by any means.  At my AAP center, only about half of the kids meet the benchmark for the IAAT.  Many have scores below 70%, and some are even as low as 30%.  The parents of these kids think that their kids are still gifted in math, but just didn't "study enough" for the IAAT.   The AAP equity report showed that the average CogAT and NNAT scores for the kids who were accepted were pretty low, and some kids got in with scores as low as 70 (not percentile.  Just a raw score way below average).  I wish I could find this FCPS report, but another one showed that around 1/4 of the kids in AAP got pass advanced on neither math nor reading in any given year.

From the parental end, my oldest child is a typical AAP kid.  She had a stellar GBRS, CogAT in the high 120s, and is a great student.  When we had her IQ tested, it was 121.  She is above average in her AAP classes and is a very bright, knowledgeable child.  Kids like her and most of the kids in AAP will do well in school, go to decent colleges, and be able to do almost anything with their lives.  If she were my only child or my smartest child, I would probably think she's gifted and "needs AAP," just like all of the posters who had kids get in with lower scores and high GBRS.  I also have a kid with an IQ above 140.  The differences are painfully obvious.  My high IQ kid did not receive a stellar GBRS, despite reading things like Percy Jackson in 2nd grade and having an off-the charts iready score in math.  He has been the top kid in his AAP classes.  The teachers have said that they don't quite know what to do with him.  [/quote]

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