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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if your kid isn't yet in first grade, then do a little reading about it but here is some 1000 foot info.  The testing for AAP begins in first grade.  More testing occurs in second and decisions are made during the second  grade year.  FCPS elementary schools will typically have an AAP meeting in the Fall semester to explain the process.  All kids are considered and only some are referred on for further consideration.  If they get in, great.  If not, you can appeal (but you have to assemble a file of info).  The problem is that you may not know if they actually get in until after the appeal is due so many parents appeal just in case.

Now, as the the levels.  I believe (I am sure I will be corrected) that the standard curriculum is Level II.  That is what the majority of kids get and what you get if you don't "get in" to AAP.  Some kids qualify for advanced classes in certain subjects but not all.  That is Level III and it is done in your home elementary school.  Level IV is when your child has been deemed academically advanced in all areas and then you have a choice.  You can stay at your home school and your kid will do academic classes with other AAP kids but may have PE or music with the Level II and Level III kids (known pejoratively as "Gen ed" by a-hole AAP parents).  Or, you may be able to go to a "center." A center is a nearby elementary school that has an AAP school within the school and pulls Level IV kids from nearby elementary schools. If you do that, you kid will only be with Level IV kids for everything.  Your local school might be a Center in which case you stay.  In our area, I have heard that the AAP Level IV at our local school is not as advanced as the Center school.  We are not there yet so who knows.

You can also defer.  Once you have been admitted to AAP, they cannot take that away so if you got in and then decided to go back to private for a year and then came back, you would still be in.[/quote]

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