APS gifted services

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Anonymous wrote:What does gifted look like in Fairfax? Curious (and possibly regretting buying in Arlington)

AAP are entirely different schools for gifted students. If you have a gifted student and want their needs bet, you should sell and move.

There’s a forum just for AAP, after browsing it over the last couple years I’m content to stay in APS

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Also based on what my friends with kids in AAP say…

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Anonymous wrote:I thought kids were normally not placed before 2nd grade but our kids school said there is a cohort in one class in 1st grade this year - not sure how kids would have even been identified in K last year given the way the year went…

Yes, you are correct. It takes place in 2nd grade. You have a few stay at home moms that come in and nag the teachers in K and 1 about how gifted Larlo is and get the "identified" and grandfathered in early.

lol. I mean my kid was identified in K. I didn't do anything. The teacher just sent me a letter.

I'm calling BS. I also bet you are a stay at home mom.

New poster – my kid’s k teacher pulled me aside and said she was referring my kid and handed me a paper to sign consenting to the referral and asked me not to mention it to the kid (duh) or other parents in the class because there are always parents who do push for early identification when it might not be appropriate at that time. It happens.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought kids were normally not placed before 2nd grade but our kids school said there is a cohort in one class in 1st grade this year - not sure how kids would have even been identified in K last year given the way the year went…

Yes, you are correct. It takes place in 2nd grade. You have a few stay at home moms that come in and nag the teachers in K and 1 about how gifted Larlo is and get the "identified" and grandfathered in early.

lol. I mean my kid was identified in K. I didn't do anything. The teacher just sent me a letter.

I'm calling BS. I also bet you are a stay at home mom.

New poster – my kid’s k teacher pulled me aside and said she was referring my kid and handed me a paper to sign consenting to the referral and asked me not to mention it to the kid (duh) or other parents in the class because there are always parents who do push for early identification when it might not be appropriate at that time. It happens.

My kid was identified in 1st grade, right after we moved to the school from another district, so they didn't even know him for very long before selecting him. I don't think he's "gifted" at all, but he was highly verbal for his age and we were in a high poverty school with a lot of ELL students. I didn't know anything about the GT program back then and was surprised to get a letter in the mail one day asking for consent to put him through the referral process. In hindsight, I feel like the school was on the hook to identify a certain number of kids for the designation, regardless of whether they were actually gifted (versus just being fluent English speakers), maybe in part for "equity" reasons to show the high FARMS schools had "gifted" kids, too.