Reply to Should AAP demographics represent FCPS as a whole

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Should AAP demographics represent FCPS as a whole"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And there you have it.  A thread about whether more minorities should be in AAP turns into a thread of mostly non-minorities, I'm guessing, saying how the program should be restructured so that their kids will still benefit.

I agree with earlier posters who believe FCPS is bad at identifying giftedness and low SES and minority kids, while many more white and Asian families than probably should be are able to game their kids into the program.   [/quote]

I love this mentality - scoring high means prepping and gaming the system or the school being bad at identifying talent. My non-white, non-Asian, not prepped first generation immigrant child from a 3rd world country scored into the 140s. He didn't game the system, he might be smarter than your child. And a child prodigy is smarter than mine and that's OK. Stop the excuses, get a WISC (sometimes free) and stop using race, ethnicity, and income as an excuse - it brings negativity and bias for all of us. Your special snowflake needs to work as hard as everyone and/or get the required scores to qualify. So you want to lump Asians and whites together. What's next? Eliminating Nigerians too because they're very good at math?    [/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