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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate all the idea but sadly it really shows the privilege. Honestly how many parents will remember to capture those precious moments of their "gifted" children, especially those who have to work long hours to make ends meet? FCPS really should get rid of this home-provided work samples.[/quote]

You don’t take pictures of your kid playing? It wasn’t hard to find pictures of him building and engineering. And it is not hard to google worksheets for math problems and print them out. Heck, you could set it up so the AART provides worksheets for samples for parents who want to appeal. The parent cold ask for math related worksheet and the AART hands over a few with instructions on what to have the kid do.

I don’t even know if the home work samples changes anything. [/quote]

Not every kid “creates”. Some kids just normally play and don’t leave a trail of engineering wonders behind them… So for those kids you might need to go the extra mile and set up the activity and then you can “capture it” on camera.[/quote]

Building structures with Legos, bricks, blocks, marble runs and the like is pretty normal fare for kids in 2nd grade. Drawing pictures and writing stories is pretty normal far for 2nd graders. These are pretty normal activities. I would even guess that a good number of kids mix up toy sets when they play because that is also pretty normal behavior. My kid liked watching videos on marble run builds and dominos and asked us to film some of his builds so we had pictures. And I did think his tossing a drum in there to bounce the marble from one structure to the other was cool. And I appreciated that he experimented with what size drum worked best and where to place the different sets.

They may well get rid of the appeal or the work sample but until they do, parents are allowed to use work samples and appeal. It is a part of the process. So chill out and stop blaming parents for doing what they think is best for their child. [/quote]

Your child is a genius, definitely AAP material. He’ll probably go to TJ as well! All better? Now you can chill out…[/quote]

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