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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Shhh, we're supposed to keep this quiet![/quote]

It is on the County’s web page, it is public knowledge. [/quote]

It's also public knowledge that very few professionals are going to risk their careers/reputations/licenses for a handful of exaggerated WISC scores.  But that won't stop the "it's all a sham, you pay your way in!" person (or people, hard to tell) from continuing to parrot their nonsense. I suspect at this point they're just trolling for the lulz or whatever.[/quote]

LOL, you're kidding, right? Spending $5k gets you the diagnosis of choice for giftedness. This isn't prescribing meds.[/quote]

There are professional standards that surround the use of those tests. A Doctor who is selling a result is violating the established professional standards and will be sanctioned. It is unethical behavior.

Either you are arguing that people who are so invested in getting into AAP are aware of specific Doctors they can go to in order to get a WiSC result that will help their child be accepted into AAP, either on the first round or on appeal, meaning that there is a paper trail leading back to a specific Doctor or practice that FCPS could easily expose (correlating NNAT and CogAT scores that are not in line with the WiSC scores back to a specific Doctor or practice), which would lead to sanctions. And any Doctor who has that type of a practice is probably charging more then $5,000 for the result.

Or parents are willing to move from Doctor to Doctor until they get the WiSC result that they want and that they are willing to pay more then $5,000 in search of a magical WiSC score.

All of that on top of the evidence that the WiSC scores have little impact on the decision, as evidenced by the small percentage of WiSC scores that are submitted and the small number of kids accepted into AAP on Appeal. Not to mention that FCPS flat out tells parents to use GMU because FCPS trusts GMU's results and that they will not trust scores from other providers.

Essentially, your argument is ridiculous. [/quote]

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