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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is about providing more opportunity for deeper/more abstract analysis for kids who can participate in that and thrive. My kid can 100% participate in that and enjoys it, but her grades are never going to be all 4's. She has friends in regular classes making all 4's who can't hold a conversation beyond the most basic shallow level of a topic. It's an obvious difference. So I'm not sure how you would reevaluate every year for AAP, but grades and SOL aren't it.[/quote]

Shy, quiet kids aren't dumb.... they are just shy[/quote]

[b]You have to know the basics[/b] before being able to go deeper. How do you assess how well a kid knows the basics ? Tests and grades ! 
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I know plenty of people who know the basics, made good grades, but they can't have a deep, intellectual conversation about anything. They aren't creative. They aren't problem solvers. IDK I don't think your logic holds up.[/quote]

I know plenty of parents who think their kid is more creative, a better problem solver, and deeper than other kids, when the reality is that their kid would be indistinguishable from everyone else.  I understand that your kid doesn't have the scores or grades to suggest that she belongs in AAP, and you're desperate to believe that your kid has some special something to j[b]ustify her inclusion[/b].  Maybe she does.  Maybe she doesn't.  There are a lot of kids in AAP who don't.  There are also a lot of gen ed kids who would be indistinguishable from your child or any other child in AAP.[/quote]

That sounds great and all, but this thread is not about AAP kids being distinguishable from general ed kids. Someone asked a question about why they don't reevaluate based on grades or SOL. There are many reasons they don't reevaluate, and the fact that some super smart kids don't make great grades is one of them. [/quote]
Using grades and SOL/MAP/whatever scores would work for nearly all kids who don't have SN or a LD.  Kids with SN of some type would obviously need other criteria.
Reevaluation would honestly be extremely simple.  At the end of the year, the AAP teacher should be able to check a box indicating that the teacher thinks the kid is struggling, is holding back the rest of the class, or needs way too much help.  If the kid fails to meet whatever end of year benchmarks, [b]and[/b] the teacher has indicated that the kid is incorrectly placed in AAP, the kid should be removed.

The only real reason that they don't reevaluate is that they don't want to deal with upset parents, force kids to switch back to a base school, or make (AAP) kids feel bad about themselves.  Every school can already on an annual basis determine which kids belong in advanced math.  They already move kids up and down based on performance against various benchmarks.  It would be trivial to do so more broadly with the entire AAP system.  [/quote]

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