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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you have 25 - 50% in AAP, the term "gifted" has lost all meaning.[/quote]

It is not a gifted program. FCPS did away with its gifted program (in early 2000s??).  Now it is Advanced Academics.  There is a difference - AAP is intended to be more inclusive.  It is not intended to be only for the gifted.  So gifted still has its meaning - it just doesn't apply to FCPS AAP.[/quote]

Last year it was 19% according to FCPS.  I do agree that it could be 5-10% if they only based it on scores and people were allowed to appeal with a certain cut off WISC score.[/quote]

FCPS didn't just pull the identification system out of a hat.  There is huge body of research that supports best practices.  The problem with basing it only on scores is that there are bad test days, flukes, gifted but bad test taker, test anxiety, etc.  To put it all on a score is too much weight on one single piece of data.

And the problem only allowing appeals or parent referrals with a WISC is that that would be limited to kids whose parents were savvy enough and affluent enough to do that...excluding a large number of kids.  Then the program becomes one for only those who can afford it - if they didn't get in with the original test scores.  [/quote]

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