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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster above me has hit the nail squarely on the head. Your child's teacher has no idea why they were not selected for AAP, and it's honestly a little surprising they were willing to discuss it with you at all. It's possible that the teacher misunderstands the AAP program, and put in a lack-luster effort on your child's behalf. You would not be the first parent to hit that issue, and you won't be the last.

[b]AAP Level IV decisions are made at the county level[/b], your child's teacher put in the packet but has no other insight into what the central committee did or did not think about your child's application. And the process that central committee uses to determine eligibility for Level IV is intentionally kept opaque to parents. People on this board extrapolate a lot about what aspects are weighted more than others, but the reality is we have no real way of knowing what that committee thought when they looked at your kid's application. And neither does your child's teacher.

If it helps, we hit a similar barrier last year. Our girl had all 99th percentile test scores and what we thought were strong student samples from us, but the teacher packet was a complete dud. We were rejected, appealed, and were denied again last year.

This year, same kid, totally different story. Looking at her teacher packet from this year, you would be hard pressed to believe this is the same kid as the packet describing her last year. My daughter did not magically become a different person, though. She just had a teacher who saw the best in her and encouraged her. She got in this year, no issues. (We did also submit a 138 WISC score this year, which might have helped? But again, there's no way to know what did and didn't move the needle once the packet went to the central committee.)

In short, no one knows why your kid wasn't found eligible except the handful of people on the central committee who reviewed the packet. But teachers really do matter, and your situation is deeply frustrating.
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As far as the bolded that's only sort of true. Yes it's a committee of 6 people from a school or schools that are not your kid's school. But they all look at the kids from the same school. Hayfield ES kids are compared to Hayfield ES and Springbrook ES to Springbrook ES and so on.[/quote]
Are you sure about that?  The AART at my kids' school suggested that you can't play any comparison games about why did kid A get in and kid B get rejected from the school, since the kids were likely reviewed by different panels.  They also said that in pool packets were reviewed on a completely different day than the parent referrals.  [/quote]

Our AART said one panel reviews all kids from a single school. Her words were basically "School A's teachers might review School B in our pyramid, while School B's teachers review the packets for School A." And our AART was one of the very hands-on ones, so I trust her.

One of the external committee recommendations they did implement was more of a within school thing.

Sure they will say they don't compare (I didn't say they do, you'll notice), and that it's not seat limited. People on this board will argue.[/quote]

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