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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really doesn't . There are tons of services for esl and n
Low income children.[/quote]

Yeah, except not all the kids in question are ESL or low income. Our neighborhood is solidly middle class and most parents hold at least a bachelor’s degree, but there are exactly four kids, total, on the bus to the AAP center.[/quote]

Our school is similar. I think we had 5 accepted this year and though we have a 25% FARMS school, the rest of the families I meet are upper middle class - lawyers, government worker, GSA, FBI, software developers, professors at GW, etc. I really think it's that our school is not a center school and doesn't have a culture of putting together referral packets or doing extra testing. By and large people are happy with our school. [/quote]

We lived in a similar neighborhood previously. Think it was 30% FARMS/ESOL. We always had around 20 kids per year go to AAP center. I wasn’t overly impressed with the AART but the packet she put together for my child was pretty good and my child got in.

We moved to a more affluent neighborhood. 2% FARMS. AART seems knowledgeable but my child’s packet was crap and child was rejected despite having better scores than older sibling in AAP. We are appealing.

I actually think the AART at the school matters. If that person is advocating for a smart URM or FARMS child, AART can put together a great packet and get AAP admission. If AART isn’t doing great exercises and puts together crap work and parent doesn’t submit work samples, your kid may not get in.

My older child had a friend who went to a title 1 60% FARMS school. Very few kids go to AAP from there compared to the 20 or so kids from our old school. That kid was super smart in preschool, far smarter than my child. He is wasting away at a bad school. He is constantly getting in trouble and mom says he is bored and getting bad grades. If he was at our old school, I bet our AART would have gotten him in.[/quote]

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