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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People need to chill out about AAP. Even if AAP did vanish from Fairfax county, their will always be GT services for those who qualify. Just like every county in America with $. The problem here is there is no cut off entrance score. We came from out of state, GT admission was Iq composite 132. No matter how gifted a mother or teacher thinks their child is the cut off is 132, no exceptions. GT services are part of the special ed dept and schools receive extra funding per student b/c of that. The openended cut off here brings about hurt feeling and aggression from parents of many students not accepted into the AAP. Not having AAP or GT services in the Special ed dept brings about eliteism in parents of AAP students. The combination of these two makes FFC an unpleasnt environment and a bet if a mess! [/quote]

We cam from out of state too. In the four states our kids have attended (in the gifted programs too) only fcps tests every single student, and only fcps tests every student twice. No other state that we have lived in does this.

All the other states only test a limited number of students RECOMMENDED BY TEACHERS. This includes the state that starts the gifted program in kindergarten. Two of the states also allowed parent requested screening, but it was a one time shot. You could also provide outside testing if you wanted to pay for it. Teachers could recommend a kid for testing in later grades if they showed a need. All the other states had hard number cutoffs.

In one state there were about 20 kids out of five kindergarten classes tested (at least one - mine - parent recommended). Two kids in the grade, mine and one other, qualified for services.  In the other state (3rd grade) fewer than ten kids were recommended for testing. At least two qualified that I am aware of (my kid and a buddy).

If fcps either limited the testing to those kids recomended by teachers, or only retested the kids for Cogat who scored above a certain threshold on the nnat (may two standard deviations from the norm, or even one deviation) they could still identify all the kids who need tue services while saving sooo much money on testing and retesting the majority of kids who are right around the center of the bell curve.

Then, if they stuck to one hard number, say 132, no exceptions, they would likely fix the problems they have created.

They need to streamline and simplify the identification process.[/quote]

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