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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at that HOPE scale it kind of seems like it skews towards extroverted kids. Am I reading it right? It seems like if you have a shy, quiet kid that doesn't draw the teacher's attention, the HOPE scale is likely to be a dud for that kid? But that doesn't mean the kid isn't gifted (or more to the point of AAP, academically advanced). Can you not be shy and academically advanced at the same time? Does being quiet automatically negate the need for more challenge and depth of content?

In a classroom of 25+ kids, I can so easily imagine a quite, introverted, kid being overlooked by a teacher whose attention is more likely to go to the louder, extroverted kids. And this forum seems to have quite a lot of anecdotal evidence that kids with stellar test scores are being rejected due to the HOPE scale.

I do support the need to suss out some kids that don't test well but would benefit from more enrichment. But I don't understand why they would reject kids whose test scores are really high, merely because they didn't draw enough attention to themselves in a busy classroom.

(My younger girl just got in this year, and I don't know what her HOPE scores were. I'm afraid to bug the AART for her packet just yet, since we don't need to appeal or anything.)[/quote]

These were exactly my thoughts when they debuted the HOPE last year. My  youngest is our family's only extrovert and got in. My older 2 introverted kids, one of whom desperately NEEDED AAP and the other who was doing fine in the program, would have utterly bombed the majority of the HOPE scale.[/quote]

IIRC, FCPS claimed they replaced the GBRS with the HOPE for racial/economic equity reasons.[/quote]

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