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PP here:  That's because APS wants to appease the parents and to avoid more work on behalf of teachers and the and arguments and vitriol directed at them by parents.  I wouldn't expect APS to establish a real policy; just saying what I think the policy SHOULD be.  Personally, I think a lot of (most?) students really do need more challenge in middle school; so at this point, let 'em enroll!  [/quote]
I'm not sure about other schools, but I'm not sure my kids teachers even know my kid particularly well.  If my kid feels they can handle an intensified class, and they have the grades/pre-req to support it, I don't see why a teacher recommendation should be a barrier.  
[b]Teachers can be biased, especially against people of color or boys or kids that aren't the best behaved.  [/b]Case in point, my daughter scored in the 99.9% for quantitative reasoning and verbal in her cogat in 4th grade.   I talked to her teacher at the time about getting her identified as gifted because she met the threshold.  Never happened.  Brought it up in fifth grade, her teacher blamed covid, still nothing happened.  She was put in regular math 6 this year, has a 100% in math without even trying.  I emailed her TA about gifted services in middle school, was told that there wasn't a point since it only affected math, and you can self select into the higher math classes anyways. [b] I'm not saying that my kids elementary school had a bias against her, but its strange that she didn't get identified, and I can only really guess at why.  I'm sure there are lots of other kids that slip through the cracks like this. [/b] [/quote]

Same experience with my son, although he was ID as gifted in math in ES. He was not initially put into the higher track in 6th grade. This really surprised me because he was always pass-advanced on SOLs + the gifted ID. I just asked his MS counselor about it at our initial meeting before 6th grade and she immediately moved him to the higher level. I think in his case it was probably classroom behavior that kept his teacher from referring him (ADHD). He's a college freshman now, majoring in applied math.

I can easily see a parent with less confidence interacting with school staff not pushing back against the placement. And I really didn't have to push back hard, just asked why and the counselor saw that the teacher rec was inappropriate.[/quote]

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