Reply to APS is failing my gifted child

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "APS is failing my gifted child"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: you may want to check these
https://taylor.apsva.us/programsandservices/gifted-services/updates-from-rtg/

Take a look at those Advanced Academics Newsletters
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o33ttRdVaN2N2YGaOe6rKkucjIMTvJPu/view?usp=sharing

music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydhOJROs22c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtsWcNiIoPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Tc6Ad2BFs

art
https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-announces-the-2024-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-literary-and-visual-arts-contest-winners/
https://www.instagram.com/apsvirginia/p/CnPnSPhO-MF/

I also heard that APS elementary school teams won first place in the Virginia Science Olympiad, defeating teams from FCPS. These may indicate APS does not always fail gifted kids in ES? You may want to reach out to your school to explore available opportunities.
[/quote] Are you kidding me? We did science Olympiad last year and it’s a joke. Parent volunteers and the kids spending the whole time working on nonsense like a rubber band car. [/quote]

I think that's the problem. A lot of the people posting negatively about gifted here are low IQ when it comes to gifted curriculum. They don't understand the struggle that these kids have every day and why school becomes miserable. For example, how about we sit you gifted classroom deniers in a classroom and have you read about the alphabet and how to count on your fingers for a week straight, 3-5 hours a day. See if you don't go crazy even with your adult ADHD coping mechanisms. That's comparable to how some of these kids feel every day. They're basically trapped in a prison cell and ignored for 8 hours a day.

It's different teaching and learning and not just making some lesson a little bit harder. Most gen ed teachers are absolutely not qualified to teach these kids and there are no specialists willing to put in the work; perhaps because they're not qualified as well? You probably have a half dozen to a dozen sped teachers and counselors to babysit a handful of kids who actually need it but NO gifted teachers... Why?? Every kid is entitled to an appropriate education taught (near or) at their level.

Plus, as was mentioned, these gifted  kids are forced to do the sped level general ed work before they're "allowed" to do the sped+ extra work as some perverse form of reward. The worst part is, the gen ed kids plateau under the APS model as well.[/quote]

Read your post. You sound entitled, superior, and frankly, crazy.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics