Does FCPS GT use race/affirmative action? My child got in and is minority...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The committee doesn't look at race. They look at the scores and determined that your dd has the potential to handle the AAP program.

BTW, my child is white...and to AAP she is a minority group. I've seen the AAP classes at my center school, and my child will probably be one of maybe three kids in her entire class that are white. Do I worry that they may have taken her because she's white? Heck no, because I know my kid can handle learning whatever she doesn't know. If she can't, we can't say that we didn't give her the chance to try.

This sounds like my daughter's AAP program. I would estimate it at at least 60-70% asian with an additional fair amount of indian. The remaining portion is a combination of caucasian, hispanic, and african-american. There is by no means a caucasian majority in most AAP programs in fairfax county. Just look at TJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am debating sending my child to the AP center. She got in. She has off the chart scores on reading/verbal but math is so-so.

Her dad is hispanic, and so is she (as far as the school paperwork is concerned). English is her first and only language. I am wondering if she may have made the final cut in part because she is minority.

I don't want to send my child into a program if she is not totally ready for it. I have read that GT can be very high pressure, competitive, etc. I'd rather my child be an excellent reader in regular ES than struggle in a GT program. I don't want to send her to the AP center if she's just a way for FCPS to improve their "stats".

Google sheds no light on this - does FCPS use race in determining admissions? Thanks.

try it, if it seems too hard you can alway go back to the neighborhood school.
However, I doubt you need worry. If it is anything like DC's AAP class, many of the kids in there will be about average. Still scratching my head at how some of them got in. WISC and appeals I guess.

[Anonymous]

To OP... there is a certain segment of parents on this forum who would do ANYTHING to get their children into AAP. You really baffle them to be considering declining the invitation. Ignor the haters. I think you are doing the right thing by exploring whether it is right for your child (sounds like she'll do fine). There actually ARE people who turn it down b/c they like their local schools or don't want extra pressure. Just do what you think is right and accept my congratulations for not being like the hyper competitive parents!

[Anonymous]

I think you are asking a really good question. The people who do the screening are principals and asst principals, so i doubt they are explicitly told to let in hispanic students. however, i wouldn't be surprised if they noticed the race on the summary sheet and were more willing to look again at a file. In your case however, it does sound like your DC deserves to go there, or at least deserves the chance to try.

Just as background- i am hispanic and my husband is white. My DC is eligible this year, but we have always listed him as white, for exactly this reason. I went to a top 20 school and even though i could easily do the work - i was listed as hispanic, and it always made me think that maybe i was only there to meet a quota.

[Anonymous]

I am debating sending my child to the AP center. She got in. She has off the chart scores on reading/verbal but math is so-so.

Her dad is hispanic, and so is she (as far as the school paperwork is concerned). English is her first and only language. I am wondering if she may have made the final cut in part because she is minority.

I don't want to send my child into a program if she is not totally ready for it. I have read that GT can be very high pressure, competitive, etc. I'd rather my child be an excellent reader in regular ES than struggle in a GT program. I don't want to send her to the AP center if she's just a way for FCPS to improve their "stats".

Google sheds no light on this - does FCPS use race in determining admissions? Thanks.

Why did you apply in the first place? If your child had been rejected would you have appealed the decision?

[Anonymous]

I think you are asking a really good question. The people who do the screening are principals and asst principals, so i doubt they are explicitly told to let in hispanic students. however, i wouldn't be surprised if they noticed the race on the summary sheet and were more willing to look again at a file. In your case however, it does sound like your DC deserves to go there, or at least deserves the chance to try.

Just as background- i am hispanic and my husband is white. My DC is eligible this year, but we have always listed him as white, for exactly this reason. I went to a top 20 school and even though i could easily do the work - i was listed as hispanic, and it always made me think that maybe i was only there to meet a quota.

George Bush knew why he was accepted at Phillips Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School? It was not for his C minus average rather his money, pedigree and family name. Affirmative action for the connected and wealthy didn't make them insecure. Why should it make you? Try changing your attitude. Affirmative action has been around for centuries in American education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To OP... there is a certain segment of parents on this forum who would do ANYTHING to get their children into AAP. You really baffle them to be considering declining the invitation. Ignor the haters. I think you are doing the right thing by exploring whether it is right for your child (sounds like she'll do fine). There actually ARE people who turn it down b/c they like their local schools or don't want extra pressure. Just do what you think is right and accept my congratulations for not being like the hyper competitive parents!

"Haters?" I'm not in the DC/MD/VA area, so my opinion is not based on jealously that the OP's kid got into a program that my kid did not.

Believe it or not, some people have opinions on things that do not personally affect them!

[Anonymous]

PP here, "jealously" should be "jealousy."

[Anonymous]

9:24 you are a bitch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9:24 you are a bitch.

And you are so polite!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I am debating sending my child to the AP center. She got in. She has off the chart scores on reading/verbal but math is so-so.

Her dad is hispanic, and so is she (as far as the school paperwork is concerned). English is her first and only language. I am wondering if she may have made the final cut in part because she is minority.

I don't want to send my child into a program if she is not totally ready for it. I have read that GT can be very high pressure, competitive, etc. I'd rather my child be an excellent reader in regular ES than struggle in a GT program. I don't want to send her to the AP center if she's just a way for FCPS to improve their "stats".

Google sheds no light on this - does FCPS use race in determining admissions? Thanks.

Why did you apply in the first place? If your child had been rejected would you have appealed the decision?

She probably didn't apply. She said her child's reading/verbal scores are off the charts, so her child is probably in the pool. If the child is in the pool, you don;t have to do anything if you don't want to. The child is automatically considered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To OP... there is a certain segment of parents on this forum who would do ANYTHING to get their children into AAP. You really baffle them to be considering declining the invitation. Ignor the haters. I think you are doing the right thing by exploring whether it is right for your child (sounds like she'll do fine). There actually ARE people who turn it down b/c they like their local schools or don't want extra pressure. Just do what you think is right and accept my congratulations for not being like the hyper competitive parents!

"Haters?" I'm not in the DC/MD/VA area, so my opinion is not based on jealously that the OP's kid got into a program that my kid did not.

Believe it or not, some people have opinions on things that do not personally affect them!

What are you doing on this forum if you are not in the DC/MD/VA anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To OP... there is a certain segment of parents on this forum who would do ANYTHING to get their children into AAP. You really baffle them to be considering declining the invitation. Ignor the haters. I think you are doing the right thing by exploring whether it is right for your child (sounds like she'll do fine). There actually ARE people who turn it down b/c they like their local schools or don't want extra pressure. Just do what you think is right and accept my congratulations for not being like the hyper competitive parents!

"Haters?" I'm not in the DC/MD/VA area, so my opinion is not based on jealously that the OP's kid got into a program that my kid did not.

Believe it or not, some people have opinions on things that do not personally affect them!

What are you doing on this forum if you are not in the DC/MD/VA anyway?

Is this the forum police?

[Anonymous]

What are you doing on this forum if you are not in the DC/MD/VA anyway?

I did not know one had to be in the DC/MD/VA area to send a post to DCUM?

I'm in LAX en route to Japan. Get out of the Stone Ages and join the 21st century.

[Anonymous]

Um no, I think PP in asking why the poster's so concerned and posting in the "Va Public Schools" Forum if poster is not living or have kids in this area. Original poster had a genuine question about her child with regard to AAP screening IN FCPS.

Let's tone down the emotion, OP had a real question!