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[quote=Anonymous]So you are suggesting that to get into AAP, everyone should be required to spend the money on the WISC?  There are a lot of people that can not afford the WISC.  But, they have smart kids.  The point is, for 95% of the kids, the system as is works. for the other 5%, there is an appeal process.

In DD's 5th grade classroom, I have not seen any child that clearly does not belong.  There is one or two that have serious behavioral issues (e.g., aspergers/aad), but they are smart kids.  No child is holding the class back.

IMHO, the deciding factor for AAP should be to ensure that th kids can keep up.   You can not know which 2nd grader is the super genious.

Putting the upper 20% in the classroom means the teacher is not spending 80% of the time getting two to three slow learners up to speed.  I think, if you go for a single number, it should be 1 standard deviation above mean (or about 115).  As it is implimented now, it is 1.75-2 Standard deviations above mean independent of anything else, and as low as 1 standard deviation above mean if the child has a good GBRS (which may mean good behavior).

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