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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is disappointing to hear - I would like for this to be consistent across schools and not just within one school. I wonder if parents are going to start choosing to send their kids to crappy ES' for the first three years just to get them into AAP and then move.[/quote]

Well you can stop wondering because the answer is no, they won't, and if they were going to they would have started this practice a long time ago [b]because this isn't some recent change to the AAP program[/b]... but you probably knew all that.[/quote]

Actually, this move to local norms is, in fact, recent… as in it started 2 yrs ago. When we went through the AAP process w DC1, who is currently in 6th, there were no local norms/comparisons/variable local in-pool cutoffs. It was all determined district-wide. DC2 went through the AAP process last year under the new local norms comparisons and it was completely different and highly subjective. The school was making up
half the criteria on the fly. My biggest gripe w/ local norms is that in high SES schools it’s now keeping high performing, fully capable students from accessing the advanced math curriculum. That needs to change. [/quote]

At our mid-SES school they just started encouraging anyone with either a pass advance on the math SOL or more than 90th percentile on the iReady in spring to take advanced math the next year. A whole bunch of very capable kids just joined DC1's 6th grade advanced math class, and now will have the chance at Algebra 1 honors in 7th and all that.

I think that was a great change.[/quote]

They have not done this at our high SES center school, which is really unfortunate for a lot of students.[/quote]

They should have separate criteria for advanced math. Isn’t that the only part of AAP that matters after elementary school anyways? DH didn’t get into AAP, but we have Local Level IV and he is in advanced math. What’s frustrating is that he was principal placed in the AAP class in third grade, but not in fourth so he has to switch classes for math. He actually came home quite upset at the beginning of the year asking why he was smart enough to go to the advanced class for math, but not the rest of the day. The frustration is that he is smart enough for the rest of the day. He gets mostly 100s on his math tests and other tests and is a voracious reader. I can’t explain why he didn’t get into AAP other than that he didn’t fill out some worksheet creatively enough. The process isn’t transparent, and not fair. At this point, I’m just grateful he’s in advanced math and eager for him to finish elementary school. My DD is in second this year and I’m worried the same thing will happen to her. [/quote]

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