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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax has its own issues. Elementary and middle is extremely segregated between AAP and “regular”. Larger class sizes.[/quote]

The dichotomy between AAP and regular can be socially devastating  and humiliating to families whose kids don’t make the cut.[/quote]

OP, please take posts about how "devastating" AAP is with a huge grain of salt. You're going to get a LOT of this AAP-bashing on here. The whole "dichotomy, segregation, social humiliation" line. Angry, grossly generalized, vague claims. DCUM is rife with posters who come here mostly to write posts like this for whatever reason. Families who had or have kids in AAP can tell a different story about the positives--and families with kids in general ed at AAP center schools do not all resent AAP, no matter what some posters will claim. Every AAP center school is different and there surely are some with "us versus them" parents, but that doesn't mean Every. Single. Center. is a segregated nightmare of haves and have nots. That wasn't our experience or the experience of the many families we knew through six years of AAP.

Make your choice based on the overall pyramid. Don't rely much on DCUM other than as general guidelines and treat intensely negative posts like you'd treat extreme outlier reviews on a travel web site--set aside the extreme ones. Put in a lot of time in the actual areas you'd consider. I know parents who moved and who attended a PTA meeting or two at schools they were considering. Any way you can meet people in real life is better than taking our word (including mine) on an anonymous forum known for posters with axes to grind.[/quote]

I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to say.  Is there jealousy about AAP?  Yes, based on thread after thread.  Does it not matter much in the long  run?  It doesn’t.  Kids will be just fine either way. APS has a much more holistic, laid back approach toward GT.  That may or may not work for everyone.[/quote]

I think pp was trying to make a flailing defense of FCPS and inadvertently proved the point that AAP is the only thing that matters in FCPS, everyone else’s experiences are irrelevant.[/quote]

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