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[quote=Anonymous]Find out what "honors" really means at the school your child would attend. Honors in Fairfax County is "self-selecting" -- anyone can choose to be in it; students do not have to pass any particular test or meet other criteria to get in. That's neither good or bad, just something you need to be aware of; many of the kids in honors really do want to be there and have a challenge. Unfortunately some middle schools proudly insist that "ALL students are in honors!" in certain subjects in those schools. That means that kids who didn't even want to be in honors are in it, and for me that raises a serious question about how different or tough it really is, if everyone is required to do it, and I know a lot of other parents who feel the same way. It's one reason some parents who have AAP eligible kids choose to stick to AAP in middle school rather than move their kids to schools with honors classes.....Have you considered applying to have your child in an AAP center instead? A child does NOT have to have been in AAP since third grade in order to start it in middle school; you would, however, need to find out the county's process for having your child apply for AAP. [/quote]

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