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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No single criteria but 7 of which 3 are being manipulated to benefit a few.  Look I get why you all want your cild in AAP I just don't agree with the process to get there.  Many children are being left in the middle and the current AAP program is directly to blame.  Why the hell do so many of you seem to have no concern about this and only care about what your child gets.  If you didn't, you wouldn't argue so adamently to keep the program the way it is today.  My guess is the majority of post here are from parents of average children who manipulated the system.  I have to believe parents of truly gifted children want the best for ALL children as I know they have their own set of challenges with a "truly gifted" child. There is more to this education thing then your child and this program has issues.  Ya know eventually you'll be gone and your child will need to make it on their own.

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The current AAP system is not to blame for the Gen Ed program's failure with respect to high achieving kids.  It's the opposite way around.  So many more parents feel the need to push their kids into AAP, leading to an explosion in APP numbers, because the Gen Ed program isn't doing enough to challenge high achieving kids.  A major problem is expecting in-class differentiation by one teacher when there are at least 3  levels of differentiation needed, with often times the lowest group needing a significant amount of help to be brought up to basics.  That leaves little time for the high achievers.  If across grade grouping by subject/ability was allowed, the high achievers would be served and many parents wouldn't feel like their kids were being neglected.  That would erase some of the  parents' perception that their child needs to be in AAP because their child would already be appropriately challenged based on his or her strength in each subject.  In-class differentiation by one teacher for all levels is the problem, and until that's fixed, the AAP craziness and discontent with gen ed for high achieving kids will continue.  The across grade differentiation is a fluid process and its by subject, so I don't think it is "tracking", so I'm not sure why it's not done in more schools.[/quote]

Any FCPS teacher who think in class differentiation is working?[/quote]

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