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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you!  Best answer yet.
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[b]Blacks and Hispanics don't have an automatic admission into AAP or Algebra 1 in 7th. [/b]

[b]For example:[/b] My child is black and we were actually discouraged from allowing our child to stay, "in pool." We were encouraged by the teacher to have our DC placed in level 3 because our DC, "wouldn't be able to keep up with the rigors of level 4." We were told by the teacher that students who are different sometimes struggle. When I pressed what "different" meant the teacher clammed up and refused to elaborate. My child got 99th percentile on each sub-test of Cogat, 98th percentile on NNAT, GBRS was 13, above grade level in every subject. Needless to say our child was accepted into AAP. Doing GREAT! All fours and two grade levels ahead in math.

As a parent of a black child I have been discouraged by other parent's comments many times but I just keep encouraging my child to shoot for the top. Some people may not expect very much of our children but I do.  I can't tell you how many people think my child got in on some sort of quota but my DC runs circles around them academically. I just smile knowing that the important thing is we are moving away from that sort of biased thinking in our country and my child is helping to pave the way.[/quote][/quote]

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