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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I believe the point is why label it "AAP" or "GenEd" at all?  Just offer the best curriculum possible, to all kids, and call it a day.  Why is this so difficult for some of you to understand?  Is it because you prefer the (perceived) exclusivity of your child being in a "special" class?  If so, how ludicrous.[/quote]

Wait. [b]The AAP curriculum isn't better than the general education curriculum - it's just better for some kids[/b]. In the same way that the fifth grade curriculum isn't better than the first grade curriculum - they're different and some kids need the first grade while others need the fifth.[/quote]

This. It is not just the curriculum that makes a class part of the AAP, it is also the speed of pacing and the depth. Kids who need to be in an AAP classroom learn more quickly and easily, so the class either moves through the curriculum more quickly or studies subjects at a deeper level.

You could put every kid into the same classroom, but not every kid learns at the same pace and some are not ready to study a subject in depth until they are older. So what happens when you have a class where some of the kids learn a unit the first time the teacher presents it, but others need a lot of repetition? At some point, you have to do some differentiation, but it is easier to work with the kids in the middle when the extremes have teachers dedicated to and specializing in teaching them.

FCPS had a great program that has become too big to work the way it is supposed to. If they could find a way to get it back to what it was about ten or fifteen years ago, the general public would be more supportive. 
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