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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please name the school and the AART's name who called you personally to tell you to fill the form out.  I could see her calling you to tell you to SIGN your form.  I don't see her calling anyone to tell someone to fill an optional form out.  If true, please do tell:  school name and AART name.[/quote]
Now I'm no fan of PP's smugly contemptuous ways, but the practice of demanding proof/names to avoid being considered a liar isn't much better, especially with when it involves nitpicky details.  If you assume everyone embellishes details and focus on overall points of view you're free to consider PP a lousy person regardless of why she filled out the form.  Everyone wins! [/quote]

Frankly, I could care less whether I'm believed or not.  I know what the facts are.  I think it's more evidence of the insecurity of some parents and frenzy over AAP today, that people would refuse to believe an AART would call a parent.  Perhaps back when my son qualified for AAP, AARTs weren't as hounded by wannabes and actually had time to reach out to a new school parentabout their child when scores warranted.   Who knows?   So glad my kids had passed through elementary school before the process became like this.   It's really sad.  [/quote]
Ding! No derailed thread is complete until the irrelevant interloper let's us know how sadly sad it all is.  [/quote]

So true.  It would also not be a complete thread without a parent chiming in about how:

--HER kid really NEEDED AAP (where he "thrived," no doubt)

--HER kid was admitted when it was a real gifted program

And yes, we do not believe you that the AART called you and told you to fill a form out, unless again there was a reason (such as you filled it out but failed to sign it or something similar.)  I'm a former long term FCPS teacher at a center and I never, ever knew of an AART who did this, despite being on the GBRS committee for a long, long time.[/quote]

New poster here.

On a side note, I have a very good friend from a military family who moved to a ver good non center school several years ago. Her son is brilliant in an obvious to everyone who merts him way, even more so as an elementary school kid.

About a monty after school started the school did indeed contact them and tell them they really felt he would be better served at the center. He still had to go through tue official fall testing for transfer students, an transfered to the center at semester.

She was unaware of the center program and just assumed the school based pull out services he was receiving at the base school was the gifted program.

OPs post rings true to be based on my friend's experience.

They moved back later when her second son was about the same age as her first kid was when he was identified as level four. Their second kid is bright but not scary brilliant like his older brother. The school did not contact them for the sibling and just let things play out. She got the normal fall testing letter like all the other transfer students and not the person contact of "We have this magnet school for gifted kids and we really think your son belongs there" that they received for their oldest.

[b]Take it for what it is worth but there is at least one other student with a similar experience to that post you all are mocking.[/b][/quote]

Thank you, PP.   Sounds very similar to my experience.  When we moved here from overseas, I didn't even know a special "advanced" program existed, which was why I was so grateful to the AART for reaching out.   It was ten years ago, however, so perhaps with forums like these newcomers are now less clueless.  :oops: 
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