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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the posts on these last few pages are from, at most, two people who are spewing junk about something they know little to nothing about. Perhaps they harbor a grudge against FCPS because their special little snowflakes were denied entry into AAP? Who knows...

There's only one way into AAP: the selection committee. The committee allows parents/guardians to appeal an initial rejection with additional work samples and evidence. Sometimes the committee grants an acceptance on appeal if the additional work samples and evidence give a fuller picture of the student's capabilities. This is especially true for students initially viewed to be on the fence between AAP and general education.

This process is not a secret. It also shouldn't be interpreted that kids who are accepted into AAP on appeal are somehow inferior to those kids who were granted an initial acceptance into the program. The selection committee doesn't lower its standards.[/quote]

But they do accept WISC scores from private psychologists. [/quote]

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BPLQKV69B096/$file/FCPS%20final%20report%2005.05.20.pdf  The Aduit report from 2020 for people to look at.

The report calls out that a small number of appeals are lodged, page 43 says that 587 appeals came out of the 3,118 rejections for 2020, so 18% of the rejected kids had an appeal lodged, which makes it hard to believe that there are a large number of kids in any class that were accepted on appeal.

And we hear from folks with high WiSC scores that their kid was not accepted into AAP. We have an audit that says that the WiSC should be discontinued because there is a bias towards families who can afford the WiSC, so it is a known issue and one that it appears is being dealt with by the Committee ignoring the WiSC. [/quote]

If you want to continue with the math, only around half of appeals are accepted.  This means that fewer than 300 kids in the entire county get accepted on appeals in any given year.    3572 kids were found eligible that year in the regular screening cycle (page 32).  This means only around 8% (300/3872) kids in AAP got there via appeals.   [/quote]

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