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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am surprised a 130 WISC wouldn't get a child in no matter the GBRS or other scores that are not IQ tests. It gets a child into Mensa but not FCPS AAP. Give me a break!

https://www.us.mensa.org/join/testscores/qualifying-test-scores/[/quote]

OP here - I agee it should get a child in but apparantly FCPS rejects these kids. I am worried my child won't get in. [/quote]

I just want to offer some very gentle advice.  It is easy to get swept away with the need to get your child into "the best" school or program.  I have had one in each (AAP and non-AAP).  And for my AAP kid, he went to two different centers (b/c we moved within the county to reduce DH's commute).

I also had substantial interaction with classmates of my non-AAP kid b/c I was a scout leader.   Most of the kids in that troop were not in AAP, although one was.  I can tell you that now that those kids are finishing MS, the ones who were not in AAP, but had natural drive and curiosity, are doing JUST AS WELL as the kids in AAP.  Even among the ones who didn't show all that much drive and curiosity as 3rd-5th graders, many are stepping it up in MS and are blooming at just the right time as they hit HS.  My own child (the non-AAP kid) was literally just on the cusp of the pool.  We didn't refer b/c we just assumed if she didn't make the pool, then she shouldn't be in it.  For years, I regretted this.... (she was 99th percentile in the verbal section of CogAt.).  But, now, I see how much the internal desire to learn dictates success.  The kids who were her peers in gen ed (probably didn't do as well as she did on the CogAT) are stepping ahead of her in MS.  Her personality or maturity just doesn't care about pushing ahead.  Other kids have taken that cue and now are pushing themselves.

In regard to my other kid who has been at two centers -- I can tell you that there is a LOT of variability in the programs within the AAP center system.  Just b/c your kid is in AAP does not mean that s/he is getting something so far and beyond what is happening in gen ed.

Having observed both kids and several different versions of FCPS elem. school, my take away is that my kids are inherently the same people they always were and the programs they have been in are far less important that what THEY have brought to the program/classroom.  I can pretty much guarantee you that your child will NOT suffer or be irreparably scarred by not getting into AAP.  I am grateful that my one child had AAP, but now that I have the perspective of looking back at each kid's experience and outcomes, it's so much more about the kid and less about the curriculum.

A child who doesn't do AAP is still 100% on track to fit-in in HS with kids who went to AAP.... IF that is what the child has the drive to do.  [/quote]

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