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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just received the email. DC is in.[/quote]

Can you share info about what you did to get in? My kid got rejected after very high scores on everything! What grade is your child in?

Thanks. [/quote]

Can I ask about what your Hope evaluation looked like?

Our son got in on appeal - sorry you got rejected and it sounds strange.  Our original packet weak point was very clearly Hope.  So we addressed that head-on in cover letter, as well as with WISC-V score, ADHD diagnosis information and a new and improved winter over fall CoGAT.  We added new super AAP-focused samples and also a letter from his first grade teachers who asked to write one, saying they could not believe he wasnt accepted to begin with.

Who knows what did it.  We are glad but sorry for you bc it seems hard to know what the yes/no factor.  We are, however, not fans of Hope and its application.

We had very good scores initially (including perfect NNAT) but the Hope was not good, maybe terrible.  We had a few meetings and found out more or less that our team low scored many kids on Hope.  (They told us many kids got “never” for everything - ! - and the fact that our son was above that - with “sometimes” -  was positive.  But we knew it had to look terrible on the county evaluation end.)

I can deep dive into the - to us - wild standards they were using but I think the Hope scoring, esp in the rollout year here is the opposite of the intention- it holds kids back rather than includes them. We wonder if it is especially not great for kids who are not extra outgoing or are 2e.  (We get that leadership is part of the AAP system in general.)

(Though it very well could be there are accepted cases that disprove this and we don’t see bc they got in w lower testing and high Hope and were happy/successful.)

Anyway, we - and our school team made us feel they don’t disagree - really have concerns about Hope.

What did that look like in your packet?[/quote]

We never had one of those. I have 2 kids applying for AAP. One was 2nd grader with mediocre scores on tests but really good work output and work samples.  The other was 5th grader with high scores on cogat (90th i believe) and wisc-v (91st), good writing samples etc, scored advanced math on SOL, high GBRS from teacher.  Both were rejected so Im just confused on what they want.  The AART teacher is no helpful in guiding what we should do. [/quote]

90th and 91st percentile scores are low for AAP.  For a 5th grader, [b]you would need to show that their needs can't be met in the regular classroom.[/b]  Both the wisc and cogat would suggest that your kid is fine in gen ed.  I think if you had scores closer to the 95th or 96th percentile + iready scores that are at least 95th percentile, it might have been possible to get in with concrete examples of why your kid needs to be in AAP.  It stinks that you can't simply show that your kid is as good as the kids in the bottom half of AAP or that your kid would do fine in AAP.  They really want examples of why gen ed is not an appropriate placement for your kid.

If you view your 5th grader's scores as "high" and your second grader's as "mediocre," then the issue for your second grader is that the scores weren't even in the right ballpark.  If there are no extenuating circumstances, 90th percentile is around the minimum score a kid needs to have a chance at AAP.  [/quote]

I find the bolded so frustrating - if this were truly the case, then 90% of the children in AAP do not belong there.[/quote]

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