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One thing to consider is AAP does not cost significantly more per kid than general education.  The only extra cost is transportation.

My opinion is any kid that can handle the load should be given the opportunity.  However, if a kid can not keep up with the depth or pace, there should be a way to place them back in general ed.[/quote]

[list]However it is not happening and if AAP were offered in all schools this could be a viable solution.  Herein lies the issues we see going back and forth on this thread.  Why should so many children who "don't cut the mustard" get this "advanced" opportunity while others do not?  The problem here is not the children who test into the program.  It is the larger percentage of children in the AAP centers who are being afforded this opportunity based on the subjectivity, quotas, preferential treatment, etc..., being given by the screening committee and AAP resource teachers.  This is wrong.

If the AAP center is for children with high IQ's then make it just that and keep the other children in their base schools.   Then a truly advanced curriculum could be offered to all children, who are "academically qualified" for it, in all schools.  Children could also be allowed to move in and out based on their grades.  This would stop the "blanket" assumption, as it is now, that all children in AAP centers are "academically advanced".

The current program is not working for all children.  If it is true, that so many children need a "different way of learning" the Fairfax County public school curriculum, that a separate school is needed, then create an "alternative learning" program.  Stop giving "all" of these children the label of "advanced"  throughout their K-12 education by allowing them in the AAP center program.  The AAP program as it exist now is badly flawed and FCPS board needs to correct this![/quote]

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