Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One final consideration for those planning to ask for principal placement. If you think your child was initially rejected by the committee for low HOPE/GBRS, bear in mind that those scores were derived by your principal/AART/teacher. The school has already determined for themselves that your child is not a good fit for AAP by issuing those scores. Asking the principal to essentially reverse their decision and principal place is rolling a rock up a hill. I am not saying you should not ask for principal placement if your DC has low HOPE, I am just saying you will need to go into that meeting with evidence for why the school’s assessment is wrong. And of course you should also appeal.

The problem is we don’t know what a low Hope score is. There are academic components where my child got always and almost always for most then social components where they got nevers. That does not mean the child isn’t one of the strongest students in the school.

Sorry, PP, this must be exasperating. "Never" is like trying to prove a negative. I don't suppose you are allowed to ask for examples? It's such a black box process. It didn't matter in our case, but the HOPE completer only knew certain things about my child. Didn't know about DD's musical ability since that didn't come up in class, yet they have "performing arts" on the form. It's not really part of her ability to do her academic work, but they had no clue.