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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, does it matter?  Was anyone on this board not going to submit a parent referral?  My oldest kid wasn’t in pool and got in first round, my middle kid was in pool but we needed to appeal for him to get in.  So for my family this pool business is not meaningful.[/quote]

This board is a fraction of the number of parents of kids who are in AAP.  Anyone on this board?  What sort of a measure is that?  [/quote]

The people who are most affected, those whose kids have CogATs above 132 and were not in pool, will apply for their child if they care about AAP. The ones who do not apply are probably comfortable with the education their kid is going to get in the Gen Ed classroom.

If they were raising the in-pool score at scores that have been underrepresented in AAP, you would have a very different situation because the parents at those schools don't know about AAP at all or don't know that they can apply for AAP.

The majority of the kids considered for AAP are done so through parent referrals and not through test scores as it is. This really only increases the number of referrals and it makes the parents of higher SES schools apply.

So yeah, I suspect that the parents most affected by this change in a negative manner are the parents who would know about the program and are in a good place to choose to apply anyway.

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I don't know. We're at a "good" center as our base. My neighbors don't speak a word of English. Now it's even harder for their kids to be screened. #equity?[/quote]

No system is perfect, but I'm pretty sure the number of non-English speaking parents is greater at Title I schools than it is at the "good" centers.  If the family at your school is not in-pool and fails to parent-refer, they will at least have the benefit of higher-level Gen Ed classes when compared with what's available in places like Mt. Vernon.[/quote]

My child is at a title 1 with high ELL numbers and didn't get an in pool email that others mentioned. One of the cogat subsections score was 132. I called the AART with a different question about the parent referral and she told me there is no pool this year and everyone needs to parent refer. [/quote]

This is odd and your AART sounds uninformed.  I wonder if they could have changed the policy about needing to have only one Cogat sub-section above the cut-off.  Maybe now it's the composite that needs to be in-pool?  I swear I saw this possibility referenced somewhere but don't recall where (maybe in the original equity report?). We are also at a Title I school but did receive an in-pool email.  That said, DC's composite was over 132.[/quote]

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