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[quote=Anonymous]From the petition:  "Many of these cuts, if implemented, would negatively impact our children’s emotional and academic health."

My child - a non-AAP student - has had his emotional and academic health negatively impacted since the third grade, by having to attend a center school in which he is in one of only two GE classes, as opposed to the four AAP classes in his grade.  He and his classmates are in the distinct minority and they are acutely aware of this fact.  This is incredibly damaging for his self-esteem (and that of the other kids in the only two GE classes for this grade).  They are considered the "slow" classes, when in reality, these are very bright kids who just didn't happen to make the extremely arbitrary cutoff needed for AAP.

"AAP students already have larger class sizes, on average, than other general education students."

At our center, the AAP classes are all smaller than the General Education classes.  Why is this allowed?

"These gifted children are a source of talent for Fairfax County and the nation. Our children’s well-being depends on the availability of programs that meet their needs."

News flash:  AAP kids are not the only "talented" children in Fairfax County.  There are plenty of talented students who are not in AAP, but who are perfectly capable of doing AAP work.  A better solution would be implementing the AAP curriculum for all students.  It's a fallacy that only kids admitted to AAP are capable of doing this work.

If FCPS wants to continue attracting companies and employees to our area, it needs to step up its curriculum for all - not just a select group of basically mainstream kids.  Truly gifted children are far more rare than FCPS would have one believe.  The very small GT program of over a decade ago was actually for the gifted.  AAP is not that program and should not be funded as such.[/quote]

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