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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are they not getting the opportunity?
Every kid has the opportunity to apply to be in AAP.

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Really?  You cant' figure that out?  You truly believe they are getting equal opportunity?  Please explain how you see the AAP program as equal opportunity.[/quote]

you started the thread - how are they not getting an equal opportunity.?  You take the test, you get a score. Everyone gets to appeal etc.  How is it unequal?[/quote]

Not the OP, but the basis for the qualification is tracking.  The 7 and 8-year-old students who score a certain score on a test have access to a curriculum for the next 6 years other students cannot access.  This is tracking.  For the GE program, they reassess the students regularly, giving students the opportunity for more advanced curriculum as it is needed per subject.  AAP is a track that a student can only enter once a year.  If the curriculum was open enrollment like in the high schools, it would not be tracking.  With the invention of center schools, FCSP could never have AAP open enrollment - the best centers would be so over populated and the worst base schools would be empty.  This is happening on a smaller scale now with all the parent referrals and appeals.  [/quote]

You even mention yourself that students can enter once a year.  
So if a student isn't in AAP in 4th, but their parents and teachers feel that it would be a good fit for 5th, they can appeal.  And if accepted, they are then in the AAP program.

So, I'm still not understanding why this is an unequal opportunity.  Where was the kid denied an opportunity?

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It is tracking (unequal opportunity), because they use IQ tests to separate young children into different learning groups.  That is the definition of tracking.  Public schools should not use IQ test scores as a barrier to equal access to education.  It is unequal, because all students do not have access to the advanced curriculum.  Only the students who score well on the IQ tests are given access to the curriculum.  As you see at the high school level, the schools do not use IQ tests to differentiate the classes.  The kids who do not score well on the IQ test are not given an opportunity to receive the advanced curriculum.  Many of the GE parents see this an unfair, because they would enroll their children in AAP if they were given the opportunity, like they do for honors classes in middle school and AP classes in high school.  The problem is the lack of access in elementary school.  [/quote]

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