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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regression to the mean. The child of two smart parents is likely to be dumber than they are.

But IQ is not stable for younger kids, so it's hard to know where he'll wind up.

Anyway, to the meat of your question:

1. There's very little to nothing offered in second grade for even absurdly bright kids. What matters is admission to AAP in third grade.

2. FCPS is deemphasizing test scores for AAP admissions to cut back on the number of Asi... uh, to increase equity. Teacher recommendations were weighted heavily beforehand and now will be weighted even more heavily.

3. My child scored somewhere around 126 on the in-school CoGAT test FCPS gives everyone in 2nd grade. He got in, and didn't have trouble with the academic material, which was mostly sub-par. FCPS AAP is probably not equivalent to the GT programs you went to when you were a kid. You will still be stuck supplementing.[/quote]

[b]There's a lot of cynicism in this post.  Not much else.  [/b][/quote]

+1 
Note, if the WISC is recent, scores stabilize around 6-7 years old typically.

IME FCPS AAP ==while imperfect and variable across centers---is heads and shoulders above the GT programs I went to as an ES kid in public schools  that were weekly "pull-out" enrichment programs where you would do 1 hr a week of math competition like problems or brain-teasers (and that were typical throughout the US since GT began in the late 1950s).  My kids whose cogats were in the upper 130s-lower 140s have been able to get meaningful math acceleration in FCPS and do a lot of writing workshops, Ceaser's English, etc. and great extra-curricular programs such as Odyssey of the Mind, Chess club, MathCounts in 6th grade (well at least pre-pandemic ).  All 3 kids were much happier and more challenged in AAP than beforehand.  We didn't supplement (except private music lessons and summer camp programs that were more about them pursuing outside interests).  My kids are fairly self-directed and read a lot on their own though so your experience may differ.

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DS deferred AAP placement in favor of his language immersion program. The Level III pull outs do some of the specialized programs that people discuss. It is not a daily thing, because they meet once a week. As for the extra curricular activities, DS’s school has all the ones you listed and does not have Local Level IV. Plenty of schools have those extra curricular activities, they are not limited to AAP students. Many of them are arranged by the PTAs. There could well be kids at schools that don’t have the programs, but that is a school by school thing and has nothing to do with AAP or not.

Level III and Advanced Math have worked well for my kid. He enjoys Chess Club, coding, robotics, and the like. He did not want to participate in Odyssey of the Mind and the math Olympics is only available for kids in 4th and higher, he wants to give that a go this year. [/quote]

Great that you have access to the ECs your DS enjoys.  As a language immersion school you might be larger than the typical ES, and have more parents interested in their children pursuing ECs.  Many ES have these EC's "on the books" but there aren't strong cohorts of kids participating in them so they sort of wither or limp along.  Or primarily have sports and scouts and not as much the math/science ones.[/quote]

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