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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This process is horrible.   I have twins who have never received any academic tutoring.  They were hand picked by the school for level 2 in 1st grade and randomly (accidentally?) booted from it despite 80% in iready and mostly 4s.  97% cogat 99% nnat 130 iq.  Rejected for level iv.  And I haven't heard boo on my level 3 application submitted in February. [/quote]

80% iReady scores do not indicate a child that needs extra services. It represents a child that is doing fine in the regular classroom. They are getting 4's because they have mastered grade level material but their iReady's don't show that they are ahead of grade level.

97% on the CoGAT shows that they are smart and capable, it is a great score. [b]Most of the kids in LIV have scores in the 99th percentile. There are some kids in AAP in the 97-98th percentile but not that many and I suspect those kids are coming from Title 1 schools.[/b]

I doubt they were removed from LII accidently, I would guess that they were not performing at the level of the other kids in the LII groupings, at least, their iReady scores suggest that.

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The bolded is just flat out wrong.  The AAP equity report showed that in the 2018 2nd grade cohort (pre local norms), a score of 132 (98th percentile) on [b]either[/b] the NNAT or CogAT composite was needed to be in-pool.  1409 kids in that cohort were in-pool.  2071 kids were found eligible.  Not all of the in-pool kids were admitted to AAP, and some of the admitted kids had scores that were quite low on at least one test.  The same report showed that GBRS was 4 times more important than CogAT scores for AAP eligibility, and the NNAT scores were largely ignored.

In PP's case, the kids were likely rejected due to low HOPE scores.  If the teacher booted the kids from LII, then the HOPE was probably horrible.[/quote]

The kids were in LII in first grade but not in second grade, there is no HOPE score used to make that determination. More likely the kids had lower iReady Scores and their performance in class was good but nothing that stood out so they were not seen as needing LII services in second grade. That pretty much meant that the Teachers and the AART were not likely to give a heavy endorsement for LIV.

The NNAT is pretty much ignored by the Committee, it is mainly used to get some additional kids into the pool so they can be looked at. The CoGAT holds more weight and that dropped from the NNAT, which is not seen as favorable. The iReady scores do not show kids who are advanced. Nothing about the scores that she posted screams kids who need LIV. Heck, I am not sold that they need LIII.

We don't know what school the kids are at, but I am guessing that it is a middle class or upper middle class school because the posted numbers would be more strongly considered at a Title 1 or near Title 1 school.
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