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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many bitter psychos on here.

No one is saying the kid is Einstein - and thanks for the PPs who pointed out the name checked serial killer.  How obsessed must one be with IQ scores to know that person's score?

Any rational person with kids in the FCPS system would quickly realize that AAP is designed for a top 15% (county-wide) student achievement population.  15% of the kids running around here are not Einsteins, but 15% of them are ready for above grade level work.  That's the whole point of ADVANCED Academics.

And if you think a kid who scores in the 150s on the NNAT would not score above cut-off (132) on the CoGat then you are just not paying attention.  Look at all the past years' threads about in/not in decisions and the public scores posted - while NNATs are typically higher than CoGat scores, there isn't a 20 point gap between the scores.

As to the GBRS, well it's culturally biased..  [/quote]

Please don't bite my head off. But if u look through the previous admission threads there are plenty of cases of children who met the benchmark on score bot not the other especially with a higher NNAT.

Also [b]just curious how is the GBRS culturally biased?????[/b][/quote]

https://www.nagc.org/blog/racial-bias-gifted-and-talented-placement-and-what-do-about-it

http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/10/20/when-is-a-student-gifted-or-disabled-a-new-study-shows-racial-bias-plays-a-role-in-deciding/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/why-are-there-so-few-black-children-in-gifted-and-talented-programs/424707/[/quote]

:roll: I guess that explains the demographics for TJ....
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Right - I don't think there are a lot of under represented minorities there. [/quote]

Asians and Indian Americans have never been considered under represented minorities in education so their representation at TJ does not dispute that there is cultural bias among educator recommendations. I am so perplexed as to how people can be so dense. [/quote]

Lumping all Asians together also places some Asian kids at a disadvantage.  My DD's friend's parents are first generation Vietnamese immigrants who don't have a college education and don't have a firm grasp of English.  Both of her scores were right outside of the benchmark, and the teacher or AART never encouraged the parents to parent refer.  I feel like it would have been different if the child wasn't Asian and was from an ESOL family.  I think teachers tend to try to point out the process to kids who do well and are from ESOL families to make sure a wide net is cast, but I think there's an assumption that all Asian parents already know this stuff.  To me DD's friend is the epitome of the type of kid whose parents should be told about the process if you're trying to reach ESOL from a disadvantaged SES.  [/quote]

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