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The NNAT is only part of the equation. APS also uses work samples, gifted resource teacher evaluation and teacher recommendation.

I’m surprised at how worked up people get over use of the word “gifted.” Maybe APS should start using a different term for the services they provide that go above and beyond the basic curriculum.

Lots of kids, not just identified ones, benefit from more the more challenging work provided by the “gifted” resource teachers. It’s not an exclusive club or separate academic track for a reason.[/quote]

It's a bit different in FCPS, because they're busing all of the "gifted" kids to separate schools and self-contained classrooms, when most of those kids could be served at their base schools.  I don't know much about the gifted services in APS, but in FCPS, they only provide acceleration by 1 year.  Many kids who are actually gifted and not just bright, high-achievers need more acceleration than the schools are currently providing.  [/quote]

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Part of the problem is that the State of Virginia mandates that gifted education be provided to gifted students.  FCPS and APS get around actually providing gifted services to the truly gifted kids who need those services by using an overly broad definition of gifted, and then providing watered down gifted services to 20%+ of the kids.  Within AAP, my gifted kid is somewhat served by being grade skipped in one subject and being allowed to self-enrich in the others.  The teachers can't just speed up the class or provide deeper work, because so many of the AAP kids need the slower pace.  A lot of people with gifted kids feel that the obvious solution is to send the kids who can't keep up with the pace in AAP back to gen ed, rather than slowing down AAP.  If AAP only admitted kids who are gifted, the classes could move at a much faster, deeper pace, and the gifted kids could actually have their needs met.  [/quote]

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