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[quote=Anonymous]My child is in AAP.  Her scores were mixed - some high and some low.  She got in initially no appeal.  I have no idea what her GBRS was.  It could have been a 16 or perhaps it was a 6.  I really don't know.  In other words, I have no bias based on how my kid scored on GBRS.

To say that all teachers are trained to recognize gifted behaviors is not true.  Some teachers may very well be trained.  Others most definitely are not.  Some teachers have been teaching for 35 years and probably have a good idea of how to recognize the children who need the Center.  Other teachers are one year out of college and are just trying to keep up with all of the paperwork and everything else.  And while they probably are doing the best they can on GBRS, do you really think all 22-year old teacers are really knowledgeable on how to score 30 kids on a gifted behavioral scale?  Is there any standardized training for teachers by FCPS to fill out a GBRS?

While AART are trained, they most likely don't know 30 kids in the classroom times 3 or 4 classrooms.  They may know a few of them who are pulled out once per week for enrichment., but even that is not enough time to know the child too well.  Face it, the GBRS is done about halfway through the school year, and enrichment probably doesn't even start until October.  How many times has the AART actually seen your your child, if at all?

As for prepping, there is no way, a child with a 100 non-prepped would score a 152 prepped.  It would be very hard to prep a child to the highest end of the scale.  Perhaps a 140 student could be prepped to a 152? A 100?  No way.

I think the prepping claims are highly exaggerated on this board anyway.  I don't think it is done to the degree that people think it is.  And if it is, it's probably done by Tiger Mom families who push their kids in everything and probably get tutors, make their kids study hours each night, attend Kumon, etc.  Those students likely won't have problems keeping up in an AAP class anyway.[/quote]

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