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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just now seeing that there is a forum for AAP.  We received a letter that our daughter was admitted to Level IV at Stratford Landing.  22308.  We just got home from the orientation.  Our school is a center, so she won't have to switch.

I have no idea what her scores were, and frankly, was clueless about AAP.  She did receive all 4s, two 3s on the report card we just received.  Now I realize what a big deal it is.

I suck as a parent. I seriously had no idea about AAP or how it worked. [/quote]

But I didn't make a difference, right? Go easy on yourself :)[/quote]

This seems kind of suspect.  First, you had to know your child received first and second grade testing.  You never thought to find out what it was about?  Second, there are announcements EVERYWHERE (school's PTA weekly newsletter, principal's newsletter, etc.) re: the AAP spiel from the AART.  Third, if your child had high scores, you had to receive a letter saying your child was in the pool.  I don't buy this at all...[/quote]
I'm not PP, but I get it.  We were honestly kind of in the same boat before we got our kids NNAT scores and they were in the "very superior" (such a stupid label) range.  Our older child is SPED and in general education, and I'm not sure we ever got a CogAt score for them (wasn't in 1st in public to take the NNAT).  It wasn't until I was chatting with one of the older kid's SPED teachers that I made a joke about the younger one's NNAT score and she told me we needed to look at AAP.  Had that not happened, we'd have gotten an in-pool letter, at which point I probably would've have looked into it, of course -- but we're a center, and it's easy to not notice the AAP stuff if you're not looking for it specifically or not at school a lot.  They also do a lot of info sessions/PTA meetings at our school during the day, so I mostly ignore those announcements since they insist on having them during work hours (and I'm the primary support for our family and DH is not in tune with school stuff unless he has to be).

For us, and I know this can be unfair to the younger one, we have SO much to keep up with for the SPED kid between IEPs, additional home support for education and organization, therapy, etc. that I can't obsess over every detail of DC's education.  DH and I did not grow up here, and the FCPS culture around AAP is very new and weird to us.  We're happy our DC was accepted, and it sounds great for them from orientation and other resources, but we weren't obsessed with getting them in.[/quote]

Proves my point. You knew soon after the nnat score and you said if you hadn't know then, it would have been when in pool letters were sent. She's saying 
She had no idea what the scores were and apparently no idea of in pool status.  Bs[/quote]

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