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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd was in AAP at Haycock and Longfellow and is in college now. Honestly, if I could go back, I wouldn’t have done it. They were pushed ahead for what? So they could take the same exact classes in high school as the kids who weren’t in AAP (with the exception of some math classes)? So they can feel smarter/superior/more capable than the general public and struggle with the idea that some things are still difficult, even when your ES teachers always told you that you guys were smarter than the gen ed kids? (Two actually did this on a regular basis) It all seemed great at the time to be getting something others were not, and she was honestly very bright and scored extremely high on everything...[b]but the outcome was no different than it would have been in a regular classroom. [/quote][/b]
At Haycock this was (and probably still is) true that her experience and outcome was likely not that much different than staying in a general Ed classroom. But not every school is Haycock. In fact, most in FCPS are decidedly NOT Haycock, PP. 
as the AAP teacher responder explained, her experience was night and day between gen ed and AAP bc kids were all at or above reading level, and were quick to catch in in math, were engaged learners, etc. I know this probably describes the gen ed AND AAP populations at Haycock, but.... yeah. That’s not universal.[/quote]

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