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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Gen Ed were truly Gen Ed, i.e., a majority of the student population in any school, then Gen Ed would improve and not accorded a stigma.  In Westchester County, NY, gifted or accelerated programs or for the true top 5%, not just the average Fairfax County household with a median HHI > $150k.[/quote]

This is the answer.  Should really be top 2%.[/quote]

isn't this how it used to be in FCPS? when i was coming through (many moons ago), the GT classes were max 20 students and there were only center programs. some years there weren't enough for a full class and multiple grades would be sandwiched together for a slightly larger GT class (like a 4th/5th class of 25 students, for example).

i wonder why it changed. it seems like the push to expand GT (now AAP) has actually watered down curriculum across the board.[/quote]

The AAP progam has always been larger than the top 2% or top 5%.  It was originally designed to capture those students and then to add in more students to provide a large enough cohort to form the classes.  It was originally around the top 10% and has been significantly expanded in an effort to reach more URMs.  The effort to expand the program has watered down the GT curriculum but the watering down of gen ed has been for other reasons.  While parents like to blame that on AAP, too, that's mistaken.  [/quote]

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