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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is true that we live in a highly educated area and compared to the national average there are more smart kids. That said, if you ask any teacher or educator who has been around here awhile they will tell you that there are many kids getting into the program now who would not have gotten in (and whose parents wouldn't have pushed for it) back when the program was more geared to "gifted" students. The whole reason the GT program was created is that research has shown time and again that these students learn differently and FCPS needed to bus them to centers to find a critical mass.

Todays AAP program is hard to justify for the following reasons:

1. Students can be high-achieving, or advanced because of what they've been exposed to without being gifted. Do these kids really learn differently and need a separate program? 
 2. With 40% of the second grade class making the cut for AAP in some schools, can anyone argue in good faith that these students need to be bused to a center to find a critical mass of their intellectual peers?

I honestly don't know how FCPS and so many parents on this forum can justify this bloated program with a straight face. [/quote]

Completely agree.[/quote]

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