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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole point of my post is to suggest that FCPS do away, completely, with all referrals. As a result, immediately you will see less kids in AAP. That's all. Why not agree to this?? It seems like a no-brainer![/quote]

Here is why this is a terrible idea.

FXAT score is a function of intelligence and many other factors (including prepping, how the kid is feeling, puppies, etc)

So, if you gave the same raw intelligence children the test, you would have a scattering of scores, probably a spread of 20+ points.

In other words, a kid with a raw intelligence of say 120 could score anywhere from 100 to 140 on the test.

So the cutoff is 132.  My kid scored 124.  But, something unusual happened:  maybe the house across the street burned down, maybe there was a fox outside, and the dog was barking all night, maybe daddy had surgery.

Maybe on a typical day my kid would have scored 140....but she was worried about me as I was  taken away by ambulance.

Alternatively, maybe the kid that scored 135 had parents that obtained a copy of the test, and the parents drilled the correct answers into the kid.

Maybe my kids's 124 was for a child with an IQ of 140....maybe the kid with a 135 had an IQ of 120.

Referrals allow for the school or county to evaluate someone who missed the cutoff, but you look at the scores and think these are not representative.  I say that about my child.  That alone only commits the county to evaluate my child, which means collecting a GBRS, commentary and work samples.

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