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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is disappointing to hear - I would like for this to be consistent across schools and not just within one school. I wonder if parents are going to start choosing to send their kids to crappy ES' for the first three years just to get them into AAP and then move.[/quote]

Well you can stop wondering because the answer is no, they won't, and if they were going to they would have started this practice a long time ago [b]because this isn't some recent change to the AAP program[/b]... but you probably knew all that.[/quote]

Actually, this move to local norms is, in fact, recent… as in it started 2 yrs ago. When we went through the AAP process w DC1, who is currently in 6th, there were no local norms/comparisons/variable local in-pool cutoffs. It was all determined district-wide. DC2 went through the AAP process last year under the new local norms comparisons and it was completely different and highly subjective. The school was making up
half the criteria on the fly. My biggest gripe w/ local norms is that in high SES schools it’s now keeping high performing, fully capable students from accessing the advanced math curriculum. That needs to change. [/quote]

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