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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it funny that all the siblings in many of the families are all gifted--even though they have vastly different intelligence and personalities.

That should tell you something right there.

This is a school where all of the parents have advanced graduate and professional degrees--yet it's just the same families in the program.

Statistically, that isn't even possible.[/quote]

It's actually very common and normal. Sibling IQs tend to be within 10 points of each other. [/quote]

Newsflash: So are 90% of the children at any of the N. Arlington school's.  Not just your family members.  90% of could meet the criteria the school uses for gifted.  It's the idea that only certain families (3, 4, 5 siblings) all magically are accepted at 5.[/quote]

Then Arlington uses a pretty low standard. The standard should be top 2%. Move.[/quote]

It's because those families with lots of kid know the system.

APS is over-crowded.

The bar for determining a Kindergartner is GT is extremely low and highly subjective.  If a kid went to an academic vs a play-based preschool there is a big difference at entry-level--even when studies show the play-based preschool will begin to quickly eclipse the traditional preschool kid by 3rd grade.

Once the 5-year old (fucking ridiculous) gets this label it's with them for life no matter how poorly they score on standardized tests in the later years or how they actually perform in the classroom/grades.

Our school puts these designated GT-kids at the top of the line for services from there out.  They fill the high group math and high group classes with GT kids even when those kids have test scores much, much lower and lower grades than a kid whose parents didn't did the phony pony show or lobby for GT at age 5-6.

[b]So now the much smarter kid is squeezed out of services and a spot in the accelerated 5th grade classes.  By middle school and HS this child will be behind these same kids for advanced algebra, AP classes, etc.[/b]

Sound fair or legit?

All based on one nitwits judgement of the intellect of a kid just a few years out of diapers.

This is why some of those families have every kid designated as soon as they enter the system, They knew what was at stake down the pipe and that this same kid most likely will have a much harder time getting that designation down the pipe.

Those that thought objective criteria would be used are screwed.
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None of my  4 DCs were in accelerated language arts or math classes in their APS elementary school and it made no difference what honors/AP/IB classes they could take once they got to high school.  Math is easily remedied if your child is indeed capable of handling it.  When your DC gets to middle school, have your child placed in the upper level math.  The counselor may give you a hard time but in the end it's your decision.  My first DC was placed in accelerated math in 6th grade and we saw the consequences to his friends who weren't.  So when our second and fourth DCs were placed in regular 6th grade math we insisted they be moved to accelerated math.  Both still got As and the older of the two is now a math major at UVA.  We absolutely hated being such pain in the ass parents about it in sixth grade but what math a kid takes in 6th grade in APS can very much affect what math track they are on throughout high school.[/quote]

That's fine for you.  But, unfortunately, due to overcrowding and capacity issues which are getting monumentally worse by the year they most certainly can and will deny kids for space reasons in those classrooms.

It's also in my DNA not to be one of these douchebag parents.  I always believe if deserved, talent will be recognized.  I am honest about my children's abilities.  I refuse to lobby for something I think is unfounded in Kindergarten.

Unfortunately, N Arlington is 99% populated by busy-body douchebags.  They are on the travel soccer and baseball sidelines.  I don't know how they breathe with so much shit up their nostrils from all this brown nosing.

The cream does always rise to the top.  The parents will eventually hit a brick wall.  It happens all of the time.  It's crushing to kids that were always told they were the best.  They develop zero grit.

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