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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't mind them keeping AAP, but FCPS needs desperately to figure out how to help the students who are bright, solid upper-middle performers who didn't make the cut.

Our kids were kept in general ed, and were bored out of their minds for years. Bringing home a math worksheet with five problems, and they have been doing the same unit for five weeks. Getting to middle school was the best thing that happened to our kids because they could finally take some classes that challenged them to think. Grade school was a long slog of boredom.[/quote]

Yep, us too.

My kids took Honors classes and thrived nicely....interestingly, there were a lot of AAP kids in those classes too - gasp! - I guess the AAP kids weren't as "elite" as the program makes them out to be.
And yhosr AAP didn't neccessarily do that great.[/quote]

AAP kids have the choice of AAP classes or Honors classes. Some AAP kids will defer because they don’t want to take all AAP classes, which is required, and so they take Honors instead. Also, some schools don’t have the AAP option and kids might be chosing to attend MS at their base school with friends instead of going to the Center school for the AAP classes.

DS was accepted into AAP and we deferred to stay in Language Immersion. Nothing about the program is “elite.” It is meant to be an outlet for kids who are ahead in school and need more of a challenge. Any parent who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves. Plenty of Gen Ed Kids end up in Honors classes in MS and AP/IB classes in HS. The point of AAP is to meet kids where they are and help the kids who are ahead engage more in school with a slightly more advanced curriculum. [/quote]

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