Reply to Fairfax County GT/AAP Appeals.

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Fairfax County GT/AAP Appeals. "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child scored &gt;99.9% very superior with FSIQ of 152 in WISC IV. His GBRS is low at 10. what are chances on appeal?

Overall, he gets bored in the regular class and gets annoyed by repeating subjects. I want him to excel and get out of the boredom mode[b], I am afraid his teacher has ruined it for him though with the low GBRS ratings[/b]! [/quote]

His one teacher didn't ruin it for him. The GBRS is developed through a committee including the AART, the teacher, an administrator and possibly another teacher all looking at work samples, asking a lot of questions and sharing observations. I've sat on several of these committees. They're pretty intense, and I can assure you that it's not the teacher just sitting there spitting out a number. [/quote]

So how do you explain then such low GBRS numbers for kids who get exceptionally high test scores? I cannot imagine that a child who gets a score of 99.99% in WISC doesn't show anything of his/her obviously exceptional mind in the classroom! And even if that's the case (highly doubtful), it's clearly a failure of the teacher (and the committee) and the school that they were not able to pull out of these kids the exceptional skills that they obviously possess. Who's to blame for these kids not making it to AAP where they clearly belong? The 7-year old kid who may be bored or distracted in the classroom or the several teachers who are trained to bring out the best in their students and their mission is to cultivate their minds and abilities?

And to answer in advance comments like "the teacher/committee in most cases doesn't know the WISC scores until after the AAP selection process is completed", please remember that most of these kids also have great NNAT and/or FxAT scores. So, how many kids in a classroom make it into the pool to begin with based on scores? 3, 4, 5 out of 25? Let's start from there, and see how come and these kids don't show anything special in the classroom, before we reach the point of assigning them an 8 or a 9 (or even worse) in GBRS.

I thought that GBRSs were included as an additional safety check so that deserving kids who for whatever reason did not do well in the tests do not fall through the cracks. Not the other way around (i.e. to be used for the elimination of kids who were clearly identified as exceptional by the appropriate tests but failed to impress their teachers).

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics