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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]From where I'm sitting it seems the anti-AAP posters are trying vey hard to drown out voices that disagree with them[/b]. BTW, see the other thread on this board right now on which a number of posters have posted similar observations that middle school honors classes seem to be significantly less challenging than AAP.[/quote]

You're kidding, right?  Every time a parent of a Gen Ed student (or of both GE and AAP students) has an opinion regarding AAP, s/he is completely dismissed by those who only have AAP kids and who feel AAP is the end-all, be-all.  It's amazing to me that FCPS bends over backwards to accomodate all the parents who insist their child be in this program.  If the admissions criteria were raised, we wouldn't be having the problem of over-crowding and likely most current AAP students would instead be in Gen Ed.  If FCPS spent a fraction of the energy, money, and time on Gen Ed students that they've been spending on AAP issues like testing, identification, over-crowding, etc., imagine what a great General Ed. program we would have.  But instead, they're completely cowed by aggressive, pushy parents who insist on the status quo (not particularly high admittance criteria) so that their average kids can be in the program.  The whole system is corrupt and is failing the majority of kids in FCPS, the Gen Ed population.  Not to mention the highly gifted kids who aren't even in a gifted program.[/quote]

How old are your kids?  By the time they are in high school, no one cares or talks much any more about middle-school AAP.  It would be like an adult talking about her SAT scores to her work colleagues - not very relevant to the task at hand.  [/quote]

I completely agree with you; but I'm not sure how your comment relates to PP, who I also completely agree with.  [/quote]

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