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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the problem in APS is the typical North Arlington parent who is highly highly educated themselves and did well in school (at least later on in life) and thus believes their bent towards education and educational success have transmitted to their offspring.

They have trouble accepting their child isn’t gifted amongst their peers —  most of whom would probably qualify as gifted outside this ridiculous cohort.

Just look at the number of people posting on these threads about their child’s amazing scores and writing poetry in kindergarten.   Blah blah blah.

And now that we are all gifted, no one is.  I don’t really fault them but it is a self fulfilling prophecy.    [/quote]

Yes- especially true in the N Arlington elementary schools. You can pull the SOL scores from the VA Dept of Ed website and see that some of those ES have 99% pass rates on the SOLs, with ~50% advance pass rates. The majority of those advance pass kids are capable of scoring a 120 on the NNAT and/or Cogat, and are likely tagged as gifted. To some extent, APS doesn't need to sort the kids in elementary school, because we've already sorted ourselves into higher-performing and lower-performing schools by where we chose to buy our homes. [/quote]

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