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[quote=Anonymous][quote=whatshername]Oh, this is all very interesting.  
 - If your child gets in to a language immersion program, then they will "just" do language immersion and not also be put in any kind of AAP?
 - I gather Arlington public schools don't have anything like this?
 - I wonder how the kids who don't get in feel?

We will be moving to the area soon.  Oldest is still a toddler.  We have not decided yet on Arlington or Fairfax County.

I have mixed feelings about it - on the one hand it sounds like a great way for the 20% to get a learning experience more geared towards their level, which is wonderful.  On the other hand, I imagine it must create a certain amount of stress.  I suspect some kids spend the summer between first and second grade going to test prep classes.[/quote]

-Some language immersion programs also have AAP.  Many don't.  In that case, you would choose to either stick with the language immersion or drop out of the language immersion and instead do AAP.
-Arlington has gifted services, but they don't have a self contained program
-It depends.  There is a lot of overlap between the kids who get in and the top kids left behind.  Many of those top kids who didn't get in do feel bad about it.  Also, kids not in AAP but attending a school with a center program might feel like second class citizens.

I think about 15% of the kids get a great learning experience in AAP.  The other 5% are split between kids who are still bored out of their minds in AAP and kids who were pushed in by their parents and struggle to keep up.  It probably creates more stress for the parents than it does for the kids, but it can be stressful for kids to be left behind while their friends go to AAP, or for the kids to feel like they're not smart if they don't get in.  Yep.  Lots of kids are prepping.  If they're not specifically prepping for the Cogat, they're doing tutoring of some kind.  [/quote]

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