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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt a 130 IQ is the top 2% of students in Fairfax. A 130 IQ child is bright but no usually so or so out of the norm that s/he can't happily learn in general ed. The dc who need AAP are usually much brighter.[/quote]

It seems that in northern VA a 132 benchmark is met by about 10% according to NNAT cutoff. This year with FxAT, the top 5% of students (95 percentile benchmark) were selected, but in past years CogAT also captured top 10%. Add in say 5% more getting in on appeal with WISC, and you have the approximately 15% being found eligible. To me this makes sense. In other states about 10% are able to receive gifted services. With so many educated families in northern VA, I think it's good to have a higher % in AAP here than in gifted programs in some other places in the nation. Why should kids who would have been found eligible if they lived elsewhere be denied services just b/c they live here? Our population is really skewed. I don't think the level of gen ed is raised all that much by the kids at the top there since those who need more time to learn and have a different learning style still need to be accommodated. [b]To me even 20% in AAP would be reasonable [/b]since again it is about 10% nationally.[/quote]

Good thing you're not in charge.  We could have kids being bused all over the county to new centers everywhere.  Meanwhile the majority of not-so-gifted kids could just make due with what's left over.[/quote]

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