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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would seem somewhat cynical to me if parents dedicate all they can to their child's education, resulting in the child's respect for education and high test scores, resulting in the AAP committee using that to infer that they'd have been much weaker without enrichment.  It comes across as a success tax and a penalty to those people who think that FCPS should be operating on a higher level to begin with.[/quote]

If the child respects their education then the child will be finishing their work and doing extra work without prompting leading the higher GBRS's and fewer complaints about the child being disruptive. 
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In case of our child, their teacher wasn't the one assigning the GBRS score, but rather a different specialty teacher, who our child claims they barely ever spoke with. The comments from the regular teacher on the GBRS were great and reflect the idea that the child is advanced.  They've told us that the child is a model student.  The other teacher, the one who assigned the scores, had many gaps in knowledge about our child.  So we're supposed to believe that this GBRS is the primary thing which should determine our child's eligibility, when all of their test scores are high, across the board?

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And let's keep in mind that we are talking about 7 and 8 year olds here. A child may very well go to tutoring and do the extra work because their parents make them. That does not equate with "respecting education." That means that his/her parents respect education and the kid knows better than to say no. FCPS discounting those activities is a way of saying "where would you child be if they didn't do an extra 2 hours of math at AoPS every weekend." Is your child doing well because they are gifted or because they being pushed ahead by their parents? My kid asks to do robotics and chess and coding club because they are fun and engaging. He gets to hang out with friends for an extra hour, build things, and play games. My kid has never asked to go for extra math tutoring. He does ask his Dad to make up math problems for him and he does love solving logic puzzles. we asked him about math tutoring this past spring because DL was not exactly exciting and he looked at us like we were crazy. 
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Sure, we all have stories about how our child is a brilliant little bubble of academic inspiration, yet as we can see happening here, due to the unusual selection criteria, some people's stories have gotten chosen as valid, while others, quite sarcastically get put down for not respecting education, when it's quite certainly unfair.

In the first place, a school should be objective, and there should be no place for the notion of "I don't [b]feel [/b]as though your child isn't advanced enough." It reminds me of what happened to some friends of ours (who happened to be an URM), the teacher told the parents that they didn't feel like he was doing well in math, only to look up the test scores and see that they were almost all 100s.[/quote]

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