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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that complaining will not stop people from prepping, and at this point, if you think your kid belongs in AAP, you might as well seize every advantage that you can.

But, having so many kids prep their way into AAP can at least somewhat hurt the kids who don't prep as well as the school system as a whole.  Here are a few ways:

-Kids who legitimately earn a 96th or 97th percentile score now look much worse in comparison to their peers who would have earned lower scores but prepped their way into higher scores.  So, they are more likely to be rejected, even though they technically are smarter and better candidates than the preppers who got in.

-If disproportionately many 90-98th percentile kids prep their way to higher scores and get in, then the few 90-98th percentile kids who don't get in end up becoming outliers and having little peer group in gen ed.

-The truly gifted kids end up with an overly inclusive program that has been watered down by such a glut of non gifted kids.  So, AAP no longer serves the population it was designed to serve.

At this point, though, it's a systematic problem.  If FCPS has a problem with the prepping, then it's something they and the AAP committee will need to solve.  It's ludicrous to expect that parents won't try to do whatever they can to get their children into better academic programs.  If they do nothing at all to solve the prepping, then parents should take that as tacit permission to prep.  [/quote]

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