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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to this group the NNAT is the least-reliable and least-regarded metric.  Who knows if that's true 🤷[/quote]

It’s not according to this group. The AAP equity report showed it to be the least reliable metric. The committee knows this.  [/quote]

The equity report states that blacks and hispanics score higher on GBRS than expected, given their IQ test scores[b].  To me that means teachers are arbitrarily rating minority kids higher. [/b] That same report states asians are "disproportionally overrepresented", even though that group scored the highest on the standardized tests.  The report was clearly written by people with an agenda.

However, I would guess the PP is correct.  NNAT and CoGat really don't matter that much.  It's all about the teacher's opinion (GBRS/HOPE)[/quote]

To others, that means that they are not prepping their kids for standardized tests and likely need AAP even though their test scores are lower. [/quote]

As it is, there is not way to justify this statement, but if "prepping" makes all the difference, let's have the schools prepare all the kids for the test and choose the ones who prepped best because that's more akin to how they will perform in the program.  Preparation = improved performance[/quote]

The gifted program is for gifted students. Not all students who are academically focused overachievers are gifted. Prepping for a psychoeducational evaluation completely defeats the purpose and renders the results invalid. If you enrolled your kid in cogat prep or in any way prepped them for it, the score is completely meaningless.[/quote]

AAP is not exclusively for gifted students though; if it were, there would be a much smaller percentage of students accepted, not 20%+.  
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AAP is for ALL students who are willing to put in the effort for advanced academics. Racists keep repeating its exclusively for their kids whom they want to be called gifted. Thankfully FCPS is working on deleting the racist word "gifted" from all AAP literature. [/quote]

How exactly is the word gifted racist? Please do share.[/quote]

PP who commented on AAP not being only for the "gifted."  Again,. I don't see the AAP Program as exclusive to "gifted" students since it clearly includes many that don't fit that definition.  Nor do I  have a problem with "prepping" for the tests if the kids do well enough to get in and keep up the same level of effort while in the program.  But I also agree that gifted  (or for that matter "advanced academic") has NO racial connotation. It could be that not all racial groups qualify for AAP in the same proportion, but that's also not racist, if all are measured by the same objective standard. [/quote]

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