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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the OP: The parent samples we submitted for LIV consideration where pictures of our child combining different materials to make different types of tracks and experimenting with how the different parts worked. He included drums to see if he could bounce items from one part of the track to another. He used different height drums. He used carbdoard tubes, plastic bits, wood bits, and paper bits. The sample included a few sentences at each slide describing what he was experimenting with. We wanted to show that he was curious and experimenting at home while playing.

Our thought was that the school was going to provide worksheets and written work. His test scores, 135 on the NNAT and CoGAT, were solid. His grades where all 4s. Parent Teacher conferences had always been positive, so we were not worried about anything coming from the school. We thought the creative play and his attempts at engineering and experimentation in play showed his curiosity outside of the classroom. I know he is not the only kid to do these things, it wasn't that we thought this was a sign of genius or anything. The parent letter talked about his outside activities and comments he made that tied together hiking with what he had learned in science or what he was reading and how he would mention how it tied to what they were learning at school.

Your kid doesn't have to be inventing anything but show their curiosity and how it ties school to home activities and play.

He was accepted in the initial round, he had strong GBRSs (predating Hope by 2 years) but they included comments on areas he was weak but also commented on how he compensated for those weaknesses. I wish the HOPE scores allowed the Teacher comments, I appreciated the context that the comments gave. Some of my friends less so, their comment was that it made them feel their kid was very average.[/quote]

They got rid of GBRS partially because the teachers complained writing comments took too long.

Also I think if a parent is offended that their kid is average...that's on the parent. I never read the comments on my kids' GBRS, but it's fine if my kids are merely average (or in some areas, below average). They're still my beloved kids.[/quote]

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