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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ I'm petty, but I will laugh when the NMSF lists come out next year, and my kid is there, while likely not a single one of the 30 kids in their grade who were deemed "too gifted to share a classroom" with my kid aren't.”

Wow. Bitter much? [/quote]

Of course I am.  My kid was denied an educational opportunity that she deserved much more than many of the kids who got in.  The neighborhood kids and kids on the bus who got in told my kid that they were smart and she was dumb.  The parents were pretty condescending about just how special and gifted their somewhat above average kids were.  The whole AAP system is absurd.[/quote]

The perfect example of why it should go back to a true gifted program - less than 5 percent.  Then we'd be less likely to hear this kind of complaining.[/quote]
PP here.  I agree that a real gifted program rather than a top 20% one would be much more functional.  But, another thing that would help is some transparency in the process.  It's frustrating when your kid is one of the ones with high test scores and above grade level in all subjects who doesn't get in.  It's perplexing when other kids are getting in who aren't even above grade level in one of the subjects and who, based on what the parents said, had lower test scores.  It's completely galling when your above grade level gen ed kid can't get a reading group because there aren't enough above grade level kids in their classroom, but they still supposedly are having their needs met in gen ed.  It's even worse when you have a kid in AAP who still doesn't get time with the teacher during language arts block because the teacher tells you at the conference that she'd love to spend time with your kid's group, but there are groups in her AAP classroom that are lower and need the bulk of her time.

The whole process should be simplified. Kids who are above grade level in math and reading and who have reasonably high CogAT scores should be admitted.  Period.[/quote]

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