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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  We are in the same boat as OP.  My DD received 99 percentile on Nnat, 99 percentile on COGAT and 99 percentile on WISC. Grbs of 15.  We showed well rounded athletic abilities as she is involved on multiple sports, piano etc.. creative writing, language and math samples.  We also applied from private school.  I called my local aap and was told they dont know what happened, they dont make decisions.

OP what is your AAP school?

Other kids got in with lower scores from my school.  My school administator called the main ASP administrator and was told scores and selections are based on which ES you are applying to.  Some schools are very over crowded.  They listed my school as being one of the ones they are cutting slots on this year along with a few others.  [/quote]

FCPS is required by state law to provide gifted services.  FCPS is basically not providing gifted services to kids who make the benchmarks as gifted because they have no space at some schools, and then providing services to kids in other schools who don't meet the benchmarks.  I know it's a wholistic analysis that's not just based on scores, but the focus should be on providing kids with high scores, regardless of school, the proper services.  While the name was changed to Advanced Academic Services, it is still the program FCPS holds out to the state as meeting its legal requirements. It's basically failing to meet those requirements.  There should be a FOIA request for all scores with names redacted--I know, wholistic approach...But if there is a pattern of turning away kids with high scores because they would go to certain schools, then clearly the decision is being made based on space rather than determining whether the child qualifies for gifted services based on factors such as test scores and GBRS.[/quote]

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