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[b]If they are truly gifted (only about 1% of the world is) then it will show no matter what.[/b]

The whole AAP thing is strange and that’s why most elementary schools don’t do anything like it. I’m assuming that parents in the area are just so intense and like having their kids do classes to get ahead, so maybe that’s why they bother to do it. I have no clue. But I can tell you most of the kids weren’t gifted. FCPS likes to overuse that word. About 1% of the population is and not because mommy and daddy prepped them for COGAT starting in kindergarten and makes them do more school all weekend...[/quote]

Most elementary school teachers are pretty dim and wouldn't recognize giftedness if it bit them in the ass.  Really, how is a person with an IQ in the 100-110 range going to pinpoint kids with IQs in the top 1%?  They can't.  It's why GBRS is completely worthless.

I agree, though, that parents in FCPS are very intense and want to brag that their kids are in the "gifted program."  I've met many who talk incessantly about how gifted their above average but well prepared kids are.  The parents are ridiculous.  But FCPS also has exceptionally low standards for the gen ed track, and parents know that their somewhat above average kids are likely to be ignored while the teacher works exclusively with the struggling kids.  It makes perfect sense for parents to push their kids into AAP in the hopes that their kids will actually be educated and not just sit around wasting time in school.  [/quote]

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