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[quote=Anonymous][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]

If you think that there are a high percentage of high SES kids with CoGATs below the 99th percentile then I have a bridge I would love to sell you. I am sure that there are a small percentage of kids at high SES centers and ES that fall into the 98th percentile and are in AAP but not that many. Your below 98th percentile CoGAT scores are coming from the Title 1 and near Title 1 schools. All you have to do is look at the in-pool scores reported here for LIV applications to see what the score disparities are.[/quote]

DP. In pool scores are only the top 10% of kids at each school, but 20% of kids are admitted to AAP. That means a large amount of kids have scores BELOW the in pool cutoff.[/quote]

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