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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But this is supposed to be testing for a gifted program - which doesn't exist as a gifted program any longer. If this was truly a gifted program, which I wish it was, then the testing should be IQ testing and not an achievement test that you prep for. Since this AAP is not a gifted program, in the true sense, then this is what you get! Bickering over test prepping.

[b]I didn't prep my DC and their score maxed out both tests.[/b] My DC needs a real gifted program and this is what I'm left with - a program that meets her needs a little better than her base school but not exactly what she should really be getting. The curriculum is still moving too slow for her. So, you can argue all day long about whether or not it's fair to test prep, but they need to issue actual IQ tests, have a strict cut off and call it a day.[/quote]

Another lie.  Then your DC test prepped herself. 
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Ha.  I didn't even pay attention to when the test was.  How does a child test prep themselves??  
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pp here - one teacher called DD an intrinsic learner.  We don't have to provide any type of help or motivation for her to learn new concepts.  DC taught herself to read, we provided books like every parent, but within about 2 weeks when she was 3 we noticed she started fluently reading bob books, so we gave her level 1 books and she goes through books like water.  Read the magic treehouse series on her own accord the summer after K.  Math is the same way.

The aap program is not challenging for her from what I can see.  HW gets done in after school care and I look at it but there is rarely ever a problem wrong.  I've tried to offer help to study for tests but she just says - we went over it in class so I'm good - and rarely gets a wrong answer on a test.  She does a lot of "learning" on her own outside of school.

Why is it so hard to believe that she did so well on the tests but didn't test prep?  [/quote]

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