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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You've missed the entire point, which is that AAP is not a gifted program.  The curriculum is simply advanced by one year - something most kids could certainly do if given the opportunity.  PP even suggested starting this in the 1st grade, so that ALL kids are ahead.

Certainly, not all kids are going to reach the same heights.  But that goes for kids within AAP as well.  Some kids are going to excel above and beyond any others - and that has nothing to do with being in AAP.[/quote]

I can tell your mind is made up.  But for anyone else listening, the AAP curriculum is [u]not[/u] simply the same curriculum advanced by one year.  At least not from our experience.  If that's all there was to it, there would not be so many people howling about not being part of it.  This is just the kind of misinformed belief one would expect to follow the constant hater drumbeat that AAP is "not a gifted program."  [/quote]

Well, from our experience, this is [i]exactly[/i] what AAP is.  The curriculum was no more challenging than that of the next grade up.  I know that AAP parents love to tell themselves, their kids, and anyone who will listen that AAP is a gifted program, but it ceased being that over a decade ago when FCPS decided to include far more kids than they used to.  Nothing wrong with an advanced curriculum, but it's very misleading to call it a "gifted" curriculum.  Because it's simply advanced, many of us are arguing that it should be open to any child capable of doing the work.  No need for a faux-gifted label in the first place.[/quote]

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