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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s one of the inherent problems with GBRS:
Different teachers perceive and assign GBRS differently
Different schools / AART / principal : same 
Some schools top scales for their applicants 
Some don’t 
After last year when 2CO 2FO isn’t in, teachers/AART/principals/schools will be tempted to 
Tip scales even more - especially given lack of in person school - benefit of doubt to student

Result: more madness with lots of 4CO students with no testing or with tests that committee doesn’t want to recognize

The whole process has really become a throw of dice and a bit of a sham for recognizing the amorphous term “need” 
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You summed it up so well. This is precisely why I can't be confident my child (with 99 percentile NNAT scores but quiet and shy in class) will get in. Because of DL challenges, there were hardly any work samples the schools collected that would show meaningful differentiation between kids in his 2nd grade class.. My kid got assignments where he filled out multiple chpice questions, filled out just two sentences (project by the AART) or had to drag and drop the correct choice, save, and submit. They did perhaps one meaningful work which I'm guessing they collected. [/quote]

My 2nd grade daughter teacher ask for her work sample right before sending her file to center. She sent two math sum addition and subtraction which was hard for 2nd graders. My daughter needs to solve it and explain her strategies in flipgrid video all by herself. Also she ask for her drawing pictures that she did for her thanksgiving project.[/quote]

Whereas, teachers at our school asked for nothing.  [/quote]

Same here.  And then sprung an "interview" on my son in the middle of asynchronous time, asking questions like, "Do you research things at home?" "Is school too easy for you?"  He is shy and tries very hard to be polite, so of course the answer to the second one was "No" ... because he did not want to hurt her feelings.  That's what we get for trying to raise a non-mansplainer. [/quote]

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