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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop buying your child's way into AAP.[/quote]

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If submitting an IQ is allowed and I'm willing to pay for the test, how is that buying my child's way into AAP? FCPS should be paying for a WISC for every second grader, but I realize it's not financially feasible. My DS struggled with reading at grade level in first grade. He just couldn't make it all connect. The school didn't see it as a problem because in his large Title I school there are many children with much greater academic challenges. We hired a tutor and he's now reading well above grade level. Are you suggesting I bought his way into 2nd grade because I was willing to pay for what his base school couldn't or wouldn't provide?

It sucks for the children whose parents won't or can't pay for outside testing. But if outside testing will demonstrate that AAP is the appropriate learning environment for my DS, hell yeah, I'll pay for it. And if I have to take PB&J sandwiches to work for lunch every day to save the money, I'll do that too.

Stop telling other people that what you've decided is right for your kid should be good enough for their kid. Or if you're an AAP parent, stop acting like your child is too special to associate with kids whose parents did a little extra to show the committee the whole child.

"Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their presents at different times in different ways."[/quote]

A child who needs private tutoring in order to perform at grade level is not academically gifted.

-signed mom with children who need private tutoring[/quote]

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