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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want to switch to test only? Get rid of the centers. One LIV class for every 3 regular class in the school. Schools that have more classes will have multiple LIV classes. The top 25% of the kids for each school are in the LIV classroom. If there is an issue at specific schools regarding the composition of the class, it can be addressed locally through Principal Placement.

Once you add in Centers and moving kids to different schools and the like, you change the nature of what is being offered and you add in a different level of complexity because now the program as a whole has to reflect the entire County and not the school. [/quote]

Pretty sure test only wouldn't meet state standards for gifted identification. Multiple factors have to be considered. The gifted program rules aren't entirely made up by FCPS.[/quote]
AAP is not a gifted program by definition.  AAP is meant for advanced academic learners.  Few gifted students who are interested in advanced academics can apply to AAP, and they are required to go through the normal application process like anyone else.  The word "gifted" doesn't appear at all in FCPS AAP philosophy statement:

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/advanced-academic-programs   [/quote]

AAP is the way that FCPS implements the state mandate for a gifted program.  It is a GT program.iy also includes other kids.  That's a feature, not a bug.  It was designed that way.[/quote]
FCPS uses a portion of AAP to offer its gifted services.  Not all gifted students are enrolled into AAP. Only advanced academic kids, including a very small portion of who are identified as gifted,  can apply and get admitted to AAP.  Majority of AAP students are advanced in academics, but not gifted, and care less about gifted services.  [/quote]

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