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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 2nd grader was rejected. Received “Always” on the HOPE in all eleven areas. All 4s on report card. WISC-V was 99%tile. We’re at a high SES school that is also an AAP center. I don’t have high hopes that they’ll get in on appeal, but tried anyway. [/quote]

High MAP and VALLS too? You may have better luck on appeals than you think.[/quote]

Yes. High MAP (99 percentile) and perfect VALLSS score (got max score) but I don’t know if those are included in the AAP packet.

[b]It’s a bit unfair if your child just happens to be at a competitive elementary school. The AAP curriculum is supposed to be the same throughout the county so if a kid would be selected at a less competitive school and thrive in AAP, they should be able to access that same programming regardless of how many other kids at their school it’s also appropriate for. 
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Frustrating to see lower scores (testing, HOPE report card etc) of kids that get in from less competitive schools and many with the same and higher at competitive schools get shut out. [/quote]

NP and I very much agree with this.  We're at a school like this, and DC would thrive with the AAP curriculum but can't get in (at least not yet) because it's so competitive.  So unfair for kids with the same profile at other schools to get all the enriching AAP activities and DC not to.  (Part-time AAP is not at all the same.  It's very spotty in terms of how they meet, and the AAP teacher decides what to do with them and it's honestly kind of random and a lot of it's digital.  Not at all the same as the math challenges, vocab work, etc. they do in the full-time AAP classroom.)[/quote]

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