Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
AAP is the system that FCPS uses to meet the State of Virginia's mandate for gifted education. If it's serving the overly-enriched, motivated, bright kids at the expense of gifted kids, that's a huge problem. When kids with 130 + IQ as measured by a licensed psychologist (i.e., kids who are gifted) are not being provided gifted education, then FCPS is failing to meet the state mandate for gifted education.
I agree with you that underachieving gifted kids need something different from AAP in its current form. FCPS is just required to provide that something, rather than tossing those kids into gen ed.
Are y'all getting ready to sue FCPS, even though you haven't even received your appeal results yet?
Quoted PP here:
I'm not going to sue FCPS, since both of my kids got into AAP and I have no sour grapes. I just recognize that most kids in AAP aren't really that smart or that special, and there's so much delusion on this board about being "selected first round." My older child is a bright (like 95th percentile intelligence), motivated kid, and she's very middle of the pack in AAP. I have no delusions that she deserves or needs AAP more than a child with a freaking 140 IQ!! It seems like many parents with bright, non-gifted, hardworking, overly enriched children are latching onto that "first round selection" as some sort of proof that their child is more special or gifted than that child actually is. I can't imagine any other reason why anyone would argue that a child with a 140 IQ doesn't belong in AAP. They also seem to latch onto the notion of the infallibility of the committee, as if selection somehow proves that their child is more gifted than the actually gifted children who were rejected. It really is ridiculous.
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