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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is at an AAP center and I was told by two teachers they heard that the county is trying to reduce the number in AAP because it has become watered down.  And the reason for a larger pool to consider was to identify those in minority groups whose parents might not apply on their own.   Both make sense to me.  But many parents are upset because they assumed if they were in the pool that acceptance would be a breeze. [/quote]

Yeah.  The program has become too watered down, so the way to fix it is to get rid of all of those pesky 99th percentile kids.  Sounds legit.[/quote]

To make room for AA.[/quote]

Well, here's my cynical view after reading the entire AAP equity report.  Asians are highly over-represented, Whites are over-represented, and URMs are under-represented, despite the efforts to get more URMs into AAP.  They can't lower the standards more than they already have, since they would end up with kids being unsuccessful in AAP.  Therefore, the way to close the representation gap is to get rid of some white and Asian kids.  The AAP equity report also showed that the average test scores for the URMs who are admitted to AAP are significantly lower than the test scores for the white and Asian kids.  If they got rid of the bottom white and Asian kids, that gap in test scores would become even more pronounced.  By not admitting the white and Asian kids with the highest test scores, the average test scores for the kids in those groups admitted to AAP will decrease.  On paper, it will look like FCPS has solved the achievement gap!

I don't think FCPS cares at all about how well their programs actually serve kids.  They care about looking good on paper.  For years now, they've pressured URM kids who are not qualified to take AP classes to do so.  Most of the agencies that rate high schools care about URM participation in AP classes.  They don't care about whether the URM kids actually pass the AP exam.  This is the same.  It doesn't matter if AAP is truly AAP.  What matters is that they can create graphs and tables that show equal representation among all races and relatively equal qualifying scores.  [/quote]

Wow. So, reject Asian-American and White kids with high test scores but OK GBRS.  That makes the test score gap a bit better. [/quote]

Or there is a history of certain groups prepping for the tests and scoring artificially high so those high scores are discounted when the GBRS is low.  [/quote]

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