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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30% of FCPS students are in AAP. It’s not a selective group by any means. Acceptance is not based on scores, but mainly hinders on excellent teacher recommendations. If you have a gifted child who is disruptive in class, this child will not get a good letter and will not get into AAP. It’s a teachers pet sort of thing. [/quote]

This is all wrong.  All of it.[/quote]

DP  Exaggeration, but not completely false:
"30% of FCPS students are in AAP"  -[b] It's actually around 20% based on the stats put out by both FCPS dashboard and FCAG[/b]
"It's not a selective group by any means" - [b]accurate[/b]
"Acceptance is not based on scores.... teacher recommendations" - [b]quasi true.  Teacher recommendations are important. High scores aren't enough if the GBRS is low[/b]  
"If you have a gifted child who is disruptive...."  - [b]False.  Many disruptive kids are accepted into AAP.[/b][/quote]

I believe it is 20% by sixth grade, that includes kids who have moved into the county and accepted, kids who apply in a later grade and private school transfers. I thought I saw someone post that it is about 16% of Second Graders are accepted into AAP. And I am not certain that those numbers actually reflect the number of kids participating or the number of kids who are eligible. I know kids who have deferred or returned to their base school. I am not certain how they are treated in the AAP stats.

It is a selective group. Kids are not accepted in the first round and not everyone who appeals is accepted. You do have to have higher test scores, although not everyone is at the 132 bench mark, be doing well in your grade, and receive decent teacher evaluations. Some folks might think that the selection criteria is not rigid enough or set high enough but that does not mean it is not a selective group.

Language immersion programs are not selective. Parents enter a lottery and are invited in if there is space. There are no real requirements to participate in language immersions. I do think that kids can be removed, if they are not learning the language quickly enough or struggling with the writing, but I don't think removal is automatic.

Acceptance is based on a number of factors. There are some people who don't like that kids without the bench mark test scores are accepted but the reality is that the program is not a gifted and talented program but more broad.

As for disruptive kids, there are plenty of anecdotal stories about kids who are disruptive going to AAP, some people even think that AAP acceptance is a motivator for some schools because they want the disruptive kid out of their school and at the Center. I don't think that is true but there are a number of kids with ADHD and LDs and other issues that attend AAP.

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