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You missed my point entirely.

There is less extreme differentiation in achievement at APS. Which is to say the cohort of students by and large performs at a higher level and are taught to at a higher level as a baseline. The way FCPS has been politicized and commoditized is testament to the role it plays in that system.[/quote]

I agree that there is a strong cohort of students that performs at a higher level.  It's similar to most of the metro DC area.

For the subset of gifted students (and I will say [b]highly[/b] gifted students vs. [b]profoundly[/b] gifted students), differentiation in a general ed classroom and/or weekly pull-outs with an assigned gifted ed teacher may not the best learning environment. Therefore the full-time center (such as that available within FCPS) serves as a different (and some would say better) classroom environment for the subset of these highly gifted kids.

As for profoundly gifted kids: that's an entirely different matter, and some would say that even FCPS does a mediocre job at best for this quite small subset of students.[/quote]

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