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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OTOH, I have out of morbid curiosity been following the threads on kids trying to test in to AAP (I think in VA, their version of G&T that seems to start in 3rd grade), and it does sound like a bunch of white folks gaming the system - people are being told to take the WISC if they had not before and reapply, the names of certain people who administer the tests are being repeated over and over again, and those tests are expensive and if the school system does not pay for them there is a problem from the get go. Furthermore, people are posting their kids scores and grades and accepted or rejected, and it seems very arbitrary, even to those parents whose kids got accepted. I know a lot of people do exaggerate on DCUM, having just been called a fake poster, but these parents who post high scores and good grades and then "rejected" where other parents commiserate, just don't seem to have much reason to lie. [/quote]

As mentioned before the existence of honors/gifted/accelerated learning for young children with undeveloped minds really does create that lake wobegone effect with UMC parents can't accept that maybe their kid isn't the smartest person int he room so they they will lie, cheat, and complain their way into getting their child ahead, whether or not the kid really will benefit from it or not.

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