No separate AAP student track in FCPS high schools, right?

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Many school districts have gifted programs and most of them have names. Many involve going to another school, whether for one day a week or full time.
What they don't have is DCUM, a large forum to complain on.

Many of these gifted programs only serve gifted kids - not above average kids with pushy parents.

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Plenty of people still take WISC tests with scores in the 130's and are rejected from AAP. What score did you get? If it's under 145 I don't really want to hear from you about how less people should be in AAP.

It's very uncommon for kids with WISC scores in the 130s to get rejected. Many kids appeal and get accepted with scores in the mid 120s.

Than that is a problem with the review process for AAP. Especially when we are hearing about private school kids getting rejected with scores of 160.

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Scores in the 120's should be good enough for LLIII services which btw is what most of the country has as their GT services. You can keep saying that the rest of the country does it better, however what they often offer is LLIII services which already exists for kids who don't make the LLIV cutoff. And LLIII services is actually a more expensive program because it involves an additional teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:Scores in the 120's should be good enough for LLIII services which btw is what most of the country has as their GT services. You can keep saying that the rest of the country does it better, however what they often offer is LLIII services which already exists for kids who don't make the LLIV cutoff. And LLIII services is actually a more expensive program because it involves an additional teacher.

Scores in the 120s generally get accepted to LIV AAP. Also, LLIII services vary greatly by school. In some schools, it means advanced math, above grade level reading groups, and a pull out 1 hour per week. In other schools, there aren't any advanced classes, and they only do a pull out 1 or 2 times per month. Most schools in the rest of the country can at least manage to provide advanced math classes and advanced language arts classes to their above average children without having it even be part of the GT program. Certainly, they can provide advanced classes to children scoring in the 120s without labeling those kids as gifted and busing them to another school.

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Anonymous wrote:Scores in the 120's should be good enough for LLIII services which btw is what most of the country has as their GT services. You can keep saying that the rest of the country does it better, however what they often offer is LLIII services which already exists for kids who don't make the LLIV cutoff. And LLIII services is actually a more expensive program because it involves an additional teacher.

Scores in the 120s generally get accepted to LIV AAP. Also, LLIII services vary greatly by school. In some schools, it means advanced math, above grade level reading groups, and a pull out 1 hour per week. In other schools, there aren't any advanced classes, and they only do a pull out 1 or 2 times per month. Most schools in the rest of the country can at least manage to provide advanced math classes and advanced language arts classes to their above average children without having it even be part of the GT program. Certainly, they can provide advanced classes to children scoring in the 120s without labeling those kids as gifted and busing them to another school.

And yet they can't. It is not happening through FCPS right now. If FCPS wants to start dismantling the AAP program, they should start by making sure LLIII and LLII program are robust right now.