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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think aap is the answer to the needs of the profoundly gifted child either though. So the kid who is so gifted as to somehow fail the screening because he has the gifted traits of being a complete pain in the ass wouldn’t nessesarily be better served in aap.

I mean not a week goes by where someone here doesn’t complain about how easy aap is. It’s not a program built to turn around PITA gifted kids. [/quote]

It's all a numbers game at this point.  Even AAP classrooms will teach to the lowest common denominator.  If only 5% of the FCPS kids were accepted into AAP, the lowest common denominator would be around the 98th-99th percentile.  With the current model, the lowest common denominator is around the 90th percentile.  This might not seem like a huge difference, but a 99th percentile child is easily capable of working at least a full grade level ahead of a 90th percentile child.

FCPS has to weigh whether it's better to serve the top 5% of the students very well or whether it's better to serve the top 20-25% of students moderately well, with the top 5% in that group not necessarily being served as well as they could be.  FCPS has chosen to serve a greater number of kids moderately well.

I don't think FCPS is rejecting kids because they think those kids are PITA gifted kids who aren't going to be served well by the program.  They're rejecting kids with high scores because they think those kids have been prepped for the tests.  [/quote]

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