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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I wasn't going to go down this path but feel I must at this point.   The process of AAP level 4 center based schools and the selection of students.  Clearly some children are gifted and should have extra and different challenges in school, but when schools are reporting that more than 25% are being accepted something is not right.   In addition to this, no 7 or 8 year old child needs to know they are so gifted, unless they ask why they are different.   It would seem if a child were this gifted they would have the sense to reason it out on their own.
Instead, we have kids now who go around saying what they made on their scores and how they will be going to a better school now.   FCPS is doing a great injustice to these kids.   [/quote]

You're kidding, right?  FFX County isn't doing anything to these kids.  Parents are.  My child had NO idea what the AAP program was until she got in.  If she hadn't gotten in, she would have never even known that she was eligible.  Even then, she was told (by the teacher and us) that it didn't mean that she was smarter or better than anyone else.  She has no idea what her test scores were (Heck, *I* don't even remember what they were).  Some parents are pushing these ideas of super specialness in kids heads.

BTW......My child has never been asked about her test scores or grades, but *I* was asked about her scores from parents on more than one occasion when she was in second grade after she was accepted.  From other parents who had kids accepted.

Chill out.  I think you might be a little too emotional about the whole thing.  No one with a brain thinks that non-AAP kids are somehow not smart or bright.

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