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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious about the age adjusted thing.  Your child will be in a classroom with the other kids of all ages and that will be who s/he has to keep up with, so why would they age adjust?  I know they do on the national test,  but this is for a different purpose.  I know I'll get flamed but I'm genuinely curious.

Full disclosure:  my kid is not in the pool (or even close) and age adjusting probably wouldn't have gotten her in anyway so I don't care either way.  I'm just trying to understand.[/quote]

[b]So, it is OK that kids, who did not get in the pool because their NNAT and CogAT scores were not high enough, are parent-referred and can get in, and everyone says they can do as well as the rest of the in-pool kids. It's only the younger kids who have to demonstrate (through not age-adjusting tests that are designed to be age-adjusted) that they are as good as kids sometimes one year older. Am I the only one who sees the contradiction here[/b]?[/quote]

But you are assuming that most of the younger kids did not do well on the test.  You don't know that.

It could quite possibly be the case that there were just as many young summer birthday kids who scored high enough to be in the pool as the red shirted summer birthday kids.

The only way your argument makes sense is if your young summer birthday child was around 90-94%.  If they were lower, then norming for age probably wouldn't make a difference anyway.[/quote]

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