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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian and European countries always test better than African and South American countries. It should not be a surprise that there are more Asian and white students in AAP. Just because they represent more of the population doesn't necessarily mean they should be equally represented in AAP. This is not racial discrimination. This is based on academic ability.[/quote]

I wish it were based on academic ability. I've mentioned my child's scores before, no need to repeat them. He received a GBRS of 10! His teacher said she didn't see "giftedness" in him. The same thing happened to my nephew. His teacher didn't see him as gifted and in her narrative wrote that she thought his Cogat scores were a fluke. My brother took him to GMU to get tested and his IQ was 142. He is now at a center working at least 2 grade levels about his age.

Teachers often mean well but they make assumptions about students sometimes without even realizing it. I don't think my son's teacher was a racist, I just think she grouped my child early on with average students for reasons I'll never know, didn't challenge him and got the results she expected. It happens all the time. He wasn't even pulled out with the AAP resource teacher in 1st and 2nd grade because the teacher said she picked her top students for that sort of thing. He had all O's and a Naglieri in the 99th percentile! When I found out about it in the middle of 2nd grade I told the principal and she was furious. He was pulled out immediately.

Like my brother I had my child tested at GMU because you start to doubt yourself with so many people saying people who look like you cant' do this or that. I was so embarrassed and mad at myself when I found out my child's scores. I vowed to never let anything or anybody hold him back again. [/quote]

That may have had somethinig to do with his race, but also that happens to most well-adjusted 145+ kids who don't act up but are bored enough in class that they don't engage - it's easy for teachers to miss them (and maybe parents too - why didn't you do something for the 4 years from age 4-grade 2 when this was not noticed - that's 4 years of his life where you were challenging him and just noticed when the school provided the naglieri - that's also something you should be looking into yourself for in addition to holding teachers to account).
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