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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our teacher spent 25 minutes telling us how our daughter is very bright but she’s not gifted. She gave examples that I don’t think were a proper interpretation of gifted vs just a bright child. It was pretty upsetting. We clearly have a different impression vs the classroom teacher and yes maybe biased but we definitely know our DD better than the teacher. Nnat 99% cogat I believe was 134. Iready reading 99% iready math 89%. In pool but did not get it but I did appeal.

I thought part of AAP was the potential for high achievement. I’m disappointed in the teachers impression. Are all kids truly geniuses?[/quote]

Go get an IQ test for your daughter and include the result in the appeal package.[/quote]

Or work on her math skills.

It appears that she tool the iReady seriously. The iReady's main flaw is that kids rush through it and the scores are not accurate. For kids who don't rush through it and make their best effort, the iReady helps identify gaps that need to be looked at and where kids are ahead. Kids scoring in the high 90th percentile are kids who are ahead in math. They are the ones who get enough grade level questions correct that they start to get the next grade level questions. The more of those that they get correct, the higher the score. A kid in the 99th percentile is showing that they understand concepts several grade levels above their current grade. That is a kid that belongs in Advanced Math, according tot he test.

An 89th percentile in math is a kid who is understanding grade level math and is maybe a bit ahead but not really advanced in math. There is nothing wrong with that.  Is the OP seeing her daughter loving math and farther ahead then what the test says or the Teacher is seeing? If so, include that in the appeal.

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My bright, not necessarily gifted, 2nd grader was admitted to AAP. She scored 89th percentile in math in first grade. We had never done math outside of school. I knew she had to score higher to get into AAP. Over the summer, we got a math workbook at Barnes and nobles. We did very basic addition, subtraction and easy multiplication. She scored 98th percentile on fall math iready and 719 out of 720 on the VALLS. She loves to read.

AAP is basically all the kids who are capable of learning at a slightly faster pace than gened with only real difference in math. If your child is not advanced in math, that child could be in not advanced math class. If child is not in full time AAP, the kids attend the AAP math class. OP’s child wouldn’t need to be in AAP math.[/quote]

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