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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think FCPS should stop taking the top X% of a school's population. It's unfair to my child that would have easily gotten into AAP at a lower SES school was denied JUST because we're at a school with a high SES/"competitive" and frankly, large Asian, population. I'll admit that I've shared my child's test scores/grades with friends who have kids who got into AAP at other schools (closer in, farther south) and it's flat out not fair to my child that they didn't get into AAP - their test scores are significantly higher, they got all 4s, even their HOPE rating was good.[/quote]

Local norming makes absolute sense and is the only way to run a program that takes as many kids as AAP does.  If they reduced the scope to a more traditional GT program, then local norming wouldn't make sense.  But it seems probable your kid wouldn't get in to a 2-5 percent program if they didn't get in to a 10+ percent program.

If you want your kid to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond, you can move to a smaller pond.  If you want a big pond, learn to accept where your kid is at.  [/quote]

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