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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]18:50 whom you are referring?  I am the 16:12 poster and our DD(currently 3rd grade) has VCI 138 and FSIQ is 132 along with WJ scores I described but her earlier cogat was 135 composite . I have been told elsewhere that these are very good scores and would definitely win the appeal and because of the bad GBRS score (8) she didn;t make it. So we are crossing our fingers and if appeal didn;t work we are sending our DD to private school.
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In response to 18:50 I am taking the wise words from a poster on another thread.  This is what the AAP program is for:

"As others have said, it's not about the best school, it's about the best school for the child.
Sending a child to the GT/AAP program is not about prestige, it's about helping a child to learn in the best way he/she can. Most kids can learn in the ways that most teachers teach. Students on either end of the "intelligence" spectrum frequently need specially trained teachers to challenge them in appropriate ways.
I have a friend whose child has Down's Syndrome. She is a strong advocate for her child in the school system. It seems that every year she has to fight to ensure that her child is in an appropriate educational setting. She does this because she knows how important the right teaching methods are to her child's progress, and her child deserves the best education possible!
Identifying students who cannot truly learn and grow in the regular classroom and providing teachers who have been trained in the best methods to help these students is what AAP is all about. It's simply about trying to teach each child in the best way for that child".

So do what is right for your child.  Only you know best.  Private school seems over the top to me if your child is thriving in the FCPS, GE schools.  Fairfax County has some of the best schools in the country!  Both AAP and GE.  Whatever you decide I feel it needs to be a decision between the adults in your family and leave the children out of the process.  If you decide to send your child to another school then and only then is the time to bring your child in on the conversation so as to prepare them for the transition from their peers.  To many parents are including children in the process and both children and adults are feeling inadequate.[/quote]

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