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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the most part, if your kid has test scores around the 96th percentile or higher, and your kid is above grade level in both math and language arts, your kid will probably get admitted.  Some kids who have lower scores, or have high scores in just one area, with lower in the other will get in.  If they think a kid is disadvantaged, or if something in the kid's work samples really stands out, then they'll let a kid in who on paper doesn't have the stats.

Some kids with 99th percentile scores across the board and who are advanced in every subject will get rejected.  Sometimes, the teacher doesn't understand the kid and gives a low GBRS.  Sometimes, the kid still has a high GBRS, and the rejection is a mystery to the teachers and AART.

The conventional wisdom is that 50% of appeals are accepted.  Keep in mind, though, that people only tend to appeal if they think they have a strong case.  Most of the kids admitted on appeal ought to have been selected the first time and already had the high test scores or high GBRS.

There is no magic ticket and no real way to "buy a diagnosis" like the troll keeps suggesting.  If your kid is solidly in the top 20% of their 2nd grade cohort, there's a decent chance that they'll be admitted.  If they're not admitted in 2nd, they'll probably get in in 3rd or 4th.  If anything, FCPS errs by admitting entirely too many kids who aren't especially advanced.  If your kid is 2+ years above grade level, they will likely find AAP pretty slow.  [/quote]

Thanks, this is a really helpful response! [/quote]

Forgive me, but I wasn’t identified as gifted as a student. I truly do not understand this post at all. Maybe it’s the abbreviations? Read and re-read and it seems incredibly complicated and confusing.

Can you imagine being a parent who struggles with the English language? Didn’t grow up here in the US? Has no time to research the nuances and procedures to get a DC in AAP?

I contend that for these reasons alone, AAP is inequitable and discriminatory.

I know I’d need assistance to navigate these procedures. I have 2 FCPS graduates. [/quote]

I guess that it is a good thing that they have meetings with the AART every year that discuss AAP. They have a general one, that discusses LII for K-6, Young Scholars, and touches on LIII and LIV. Then there is a separate meeting that discusses the process for 2nd graders. Those meetings discuss every term in the above posts. And they have a power point available. And it is available in multiple languages.

We have one kid and navigated the process fine. I mean, my start ended up being here when we got an NNAT score home in first grade and I went “What is this?” And found that the AART at our school wasn’t all that helpful. Her response to my question about the test was that DS would probably be in pool for LIV services but didn’t tell me what that meant. The FCPS page had basic info on it but I wanted to learn more so I googled it and got links that brought me here.

I know people who received those tests and did nothing. I know that our school had hardly anyone attend the AART’s AAP meetings, I did. There were maybe 20 parents at the general meeting and 10 at the LIII/LIV meeting. But we are a small school so maybe those numbers are not small.

There is plenty of info out there and plenty of ways for parents to get a hold of it. I would guess Title 1 schools have further outreach to parents but that is a guess. [/quote]

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