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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The burden should not be placed on people who are perhaps lower SES, working multiple jobs, or don't speak English very well to attain appropriate educational placement for their kids.  If the statistics show that a much larger percentage of Asian or white parents with kids scoring between 120 and 131 submit parent referrals than black or Hispanic parents with kids in the same score range, then the referral system needs to be fixed.  [/quote]

How?  There are many information meetings with translation available.  At some point personal responsibility needs to come into play.  [/quote]

If the vast majority of white and Asian parents refer kids who score in the 120s, then the school committee should automatically consider any kid who scores in the 120s.  Or at least, they should do so for URMs or lower SES kids.  Similarly, schools rarely submit school referrals for Level IV, but they have the right to do so.  If schools were encouraged to refer any URMs who seem bright, have reasonably high test scores, but perhaps have parents who don't know the system, it could go a long way toward fixing the problem.  After all, the main issue isn't that URMs are being rejected at high rates by the AAP selection committee.  It's that parents aren't referring, so the selection committee isn't evaluating these children at all.

Likewise, if the majority of white and Asian kids are receiving some sort of CogAT prep, then the same should be provided for URMs through Young Scholars.  Affluence and parental involvement are not supposed to influence who is found eligible for AAP.  [/quote]

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