Sangster Elementary

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Anonymous wrote:It's a center school - at third there's an influx of AAP kids from the feeder schools. If you're a Sangster base kid who *doesn't* get in to AAP it can feel like being excluded/left behind (again - based on accounts I've read here and elsewhere - I don't have personal experience of this).

DP to add as we look at Fairfax county in general, I think I have mixed feelings about the entire AAP concept. It feels pressure cookerish to potentially have so many kids feel left out though they're perfectly normal, especially at such a young age.

Yeah, my DD isn't in AAP and some of her friends left in 4th grade to go to Sangster, "where the smart kids go to school," as my daughter says. There is definitely a have/have not element to it but honestly, by the time they hit high school no one cares. Kids in middle school can do honors which is very similar.

Thanks, glad it doesn't matter in middle school. I really don't like the have/have not element to this at the elementary school level. I looked in the AAP forum and some of the threads and posts kinda made me nauseous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a center school - at third there's an influx of AAP kids from the feeder schools. If you're a Sangster base kid who *doesn't* get in to AAP it can feel like being excluded/left behind (again - based on accounts I've read here and elsewhere - I don't have personal experience of this).

DP to add as we look at Fairfax county in general, I think I have mixed feelings about the entire AAP concept. It feels pressure cookerish to potentially have so many kids feel left out though they're perfectly normal, especially at such a young age.

NP. A lot of families move to FCPS for AAP. The ones who do not like it may choose APS which doesn't have a GT program to speak or.

Fwiw, I think pressure cooker exists entirely separately from AAP and only coincides sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a center school - at third there's an influx of AAP kids from the feeder schools. If you're a Sangster base kid who *doesn't* get in to AAP it can feel like being excluded/left behind (again - based on accounts I've read here and elsewhere - I don't have personal experience of this).

DP to add as we look at Fairfax county in general, I think I have mixed feelings about the entire AAP concept. It feels pressure cookerish to potentially have so many kids feel left out though they're perfectly normal, especially at such a young age.

NP. A lot of families move to FCPS for AAP. The ones who do not like it may choose APS which doesn't have a GT program to speak or.

Fwiw, I think pressure cooker exists entirely separately from AAP and only coincides sometimes.

What is APS?

[Anonymous]

I agree that the "pressure cooker" element in this area is about parents, not the AAP program. AAP is just a resource for kids who need it, just like any other resource in public school. That some people get in a huff about it is their problem, not the program's.

I also think any have/have not issues around AAP have *way* more to do with parents than kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a center school - at third there's an influx of AAP kids from the feeder schools. If you're a Sangster base kid who *doesn't* get in to AAP it can feel like being excluded/left behind (again - based on accounts I've read here and elsewhere - I don't have personal experience of this).

DP to add as we look at Fairfax county in general, I think I have mixed feelings about the entire AAP concept. It feels pressure cookerish to potentially have so many kids feel left out though they're perfectly normal, especially at such a young age.

NP. A lot of families move to FCPS for AAP. The ones who do not like it may choose APS which doesn't have a GT program to speak or.

Fwiw, I think pressure cooker exists entirely separately from AAP and only coincides sometimes.

What is APS?

Dp.
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