I went private to avoid the whole AAP nonsense

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Anonymous wrote:Our children also qualified for AAP but we left because we were underwhelmed with the AAP program at FCPS. It was really a disappointment.

We are fortunate to have what we have, but private school is still a sacrifice for us. It's night and day better than what's on offer in the "AAP" program at FCPS. Sadly, the entire focus of FCPS has shifted away from academic excellence, in my opinion.

What school do you choose for your child?

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I'd love to send my kid to a private but I am not American and am shocked at the idea of religiously affiliated schools and will not send my son to one. Would love to find a school other than GDS.
Potomac, Congressional, Langley, and Basis do not seem like good options.

You basically just shot down every top private in the DMV. You seem to have a you problem.

The religion is very watered down at most of the top privates with theoretical religious affiliations …

Maret, WIS, French and German Schools, Lowell, Montessori’s do not have religious affil. that I am aware of … probably more

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody else? DH and I are both double-Ivies so everyone would expect our kids to be in AAP and I guess to an extent we would expect it ourselves. But we have no desire to test prep or see kids bragging about their test scores or how they’re in an advanced program or math class at such a young age. So we’ve opted out starting K. It won’t even be on the table. My kids can have fun being kids. Anyone else?

This is the right approach. Recent research has shown that when parents both attend at least two Ivy league schools, the prestige of those degrees is evident in DNA. A prestige gene affixes itself to various spots in the DNA helix, creating offspring that don't need to bother with AAP in public schools, and can be assured they will glide into the Ivy league themselves.

🤓🤩😝

But what happens when only one parent Carrie’s the prestige gene? Do they need to make their muggle children sweat it out doing AAP in public schools or can they chill at laid back DMV private schools as well?

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Anonymous wrote:Our children also qualified for AAP but we left because we were underwhelmed with the AAP program at FCPS. It was really a disappointment.

We are fortunate to have what we have, but private school is still a sacrifice for us. It's night and day better than what's on offer in the "AAP" program at FCPS. Sadly, the entire focus of FCPS has shifted away from academic excellence, in my opinion.

What school do you choose for your child?

+1
I'd love to send my kid to a private but I am not American and am shocked at the idea of religiously affiliated schools and will not send my son to one. Would love to find a school other than GDS.
Potomac, Congressional, Langley, and Basis do not seem like good options.

You basically just shot down every top private in the DMV. You seem to have a you problem.

The religion is very watered down at most of the top privates with theoretical religious affiliations …

Maret, WIS, French and German Schools, Lowell, Montessori’s do not have religious affil. that I am aware of … probably more

And Ho,ton plus Madeira for girls

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OP, you are right that it is much better if the student misses the "gifted" memo.

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody else? DH and I are both double-Ivies so everyone would expect our kids to be in AAP and I guess to an extent we would expect it ourselves. But we have no desire to test prep or see kids bragging about their test scores or how they’re in an advanced program or math class at such a young age. So we’ve opted out starting K. It won’t even be on the table. My kids can have fun being kids. Anyone else?

What is AAP? Is this a public school thing?

I had to Google it. It stands for advanced academic programs, and seems to be a public school thing.

As a former gifted kid who attended gifted programs and is now a middle-aged professional adult, I'd like to tell parents of gifted kids to calm down. Stop stressing your kids out. Stop worrying about the future. Let the kids be kids. Don't push them too hard -- you'll create anxious kids who feel like nothing they do is ever quite good enough for you. Chill, y'all.

That's exactly the whole point of OP's post.

No kidding. How unheard of that a subsequent poster would agree with and add support for a post by OP. Good reading comprehension, there, friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Switching to private for next year after being a public school advocate my entire life. The gifted program has done nothing for my mathematically talented 4th grader, and I'm burnt out supplementing at home. Private is willing to work with us on differentiated math curriculum since class sizes are really small. They agreed to support him doing AOPs curriculum. Leaving public schools is bitter sweet because I've tried to so hard to support our local public schools and I really want them to work for everyone.

Oh you'll be back. That private will sell you a bridge to get you to sign that tuition contract. Private school teachers choose private over public because it is less work to deal with smaller groups of kids who don't have vast discrepancies in learning abilities. The last thing they want is your special snowflake child who (you think) needs to be "challenged", emailing them everyday that little Duffy is bored. They will wear of you quickly and you will return to public school.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol at everyone would expect your kids to be in AAP because you’re both “double-Ivies.” The vast majority of my kids’ classmates have no idea where DH or I went to undergrad, grad school, or law school. We did not test prep and have never heard any kids brag about their test scores. My kids each know one or two kids who brag about AAP. I went to private school and knew tons of kids who bragged about money and any number of other things. So you aren’t avoiding bragging kids … but I’m glad you’re happy with your decision. We have loved FCPS.

LOL, right? I posted in another thread about how our DC got into a Big 3 K, the DC of our "double Ivies" (under and grad) friends did not, and they seemed utterly baffled at how that could have happened. Divine rights of matriculation.

OP here. You seem really insecure about your lack of academic credentials since you keep posting about this.

All I meant was that people expect our kids to be smart and to do the smart things that smart kids do, like getting admitted to AAP. But I don’t want that pressure for them. I did not say that being our children automatically makes them a shoe-in for AAP.

Fwiw, we got admitted to a Big 3 as well. Hopefully not the same one as you, since you seem unpleasant.

It’s shoo-in, not shoe-in.

-Public school graduate