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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An IQ of 120 puts a person in the 90th percentile for intelligence. While the NNAT and the CogAT are not IQ tests, they are meant to be proxies. A child that scores 120 on the CogAT is well above average intelligence and will probably do just fine in AAP. It is hardly an awful score.

The committee is using test scores as well as class room behavior and work to try and determine who might benefit from AAP. [b]A kid with a 140 test score and poor class work and motivation in class might be really bright but not do well in AAP because they don't seem to be motivated in the classroom.[/b] A kid with 120 and excellent classwork and showing motivation in class might not be as intelligent as the kid with the 140 but gives the appearance of being motivated and probably in a good place to do well in AAP.

The process is not perfect but there is far more grey area in the selection process then people here want to acknowledge. test scores are one indicator of intelligence but that does not equate with being a good fit in AAP.

And there are folks who are far more driven to get their kid into AAP because they are at lower performing schools and want to move their kids into AAP because they hope to surround their kids with other kids that appear to be motivated to learn. And their are folks who are less concerned about AAP because the base school is solid and the parents are less worried about the education their kid is going to receive. And then there are the parents who see AAP as a status symbol. 
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These are exactly the kids that gifted programs are for.  And while Fairfax has changed the name of the GT program, it still does serve these kids, better in some center schools than others.  [/quote]

And there are kids with 120 IQs not served in their Gen Ed programs because their teachers are working hard to help kids who are struggling to keep at grade level. So parents work to get their kids who score in the 120s into AAP so that their kids are able to be in a program that challenges them. I suspect that the parents at my kids ES are less worried about AAP is because the Gen Ed program works well for the vast majority of the kids. And I wonder if the kids whose centers are able to really focus on the 140 kids are the ones were the parents don't worry about the Gen Ed program at their school so the kids with 120s stay in the Gen Ed program. 
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