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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question. What is the point for elementary and middle when anyone can take AP in high school? It also seems like unless you have a goal for TJ, there really is no actual purpose earlier on... My child got accepted and will be starting this year but I am still boggled on whether it’s actually worth something so early on. Would love feedback on what you feel your child gained from the program overall...Or if they gained anything at all? [/quote]

Since they could provide this curriculum at home schools through grouping, it's clear the point is to provide a way to segregate children based on faux merit aka privilege.[/quote]

There's nothing faux about an IQ test, my friend[/quote]

And there is no reason that a kid with an above average IQ (AAP is not an actual gifted program and hasn't been for a long time) needs a more advanced curriculum. [/quote]

I posted about IQ, and I totally agree with you. The program should be made much smaller and should only be for those with top 5% IQ scores. I'd say top 1% but then there wouldn't be enough kids to fill classes even at centers[/quote]

The kids in-pool for AAP are all in the top 1% of [b]IQ based on the CogAT.[/b] The old threshold, 132, is right at the 99th percentile so the top 1%. The program would be a great deal larger if it included more kids in the top 5%. The new local approach is to take the score of the top 10% at each school for the pool, which decreased the number of kids in the pool at many schools and caused a good amount of distress. The program is trying to reflect the needs of the kids at each school and finding the top 10% of kids at each local school. [/quote]

You do realize that IQ has nothing to do with CogAT? [/quote]

DP.  It's a proxy.  Exact?  No, but IQ doesn't have "nothing" to do with Cogat.[/quote]
IQ has almost nothing to do with CogAT when so many people prep.  CogAT is normed using kids who are unfamiliar with the types of questions asked.  [/quote]

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