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[quote=Anonymous]My heart goes for your youngest and you… That’s my oldest and since third grade he switched off. My youngest is so bright, but I don’t want to put him in FCPS because I know the same will happen to him. Congratulations for them being motivated and thriving. The future is bleak in this house. I’m thinking about pulling them out from FCPS.

quote=Anonymous]I've got two "success" stories.  In my observation of watching three children and their peer group go through high school, motivation and hard work becomes more important in how successful a student will be.

Oldest was in Gen Ed.  In 2nd grade, his teacher told me he didn't belong in AAP.  I did a parent referral anyway, and he was not selected.   In middle school, he wanted to take all honors.  Continued that in high school and graduated with a full IB diploma.  He's now a senior at W&M and will be graduating in 5 weeks.  He most likely will graduate with a 3.5 GPA and has a fantastic job lined up.   My oldest is a super motivated, hard worker but way back in 2nd grade, he was an average 7 year old [b]little [/b]boy.

My youngest is currently in high school.  He's my third and also was in Gen Ed.  I thought for sure that he would just take a few IB classes.  He decided he wanted to pursue the full IB diploma as well.  He's on track to complete it next year.  He actually has higher grades than his older brother.   I'll never forget when he came home in 3rd grade and realized that many of his friends were in AAP and he was the "dumb" kid in Gen Ed (our base school is a center school.)  It broke my heart.

My middle one was in AAP.  He was an early reader and was super good at puzzles at a very early age.  He's the "smartest" of my three kids.  But he's the laziest of the three.  In 8th grade, in his AAP English class, he was "flunking" English because he wasn't doing work in class.  He turned it around but it was my first clue that he was the kid who was going to do the bare minimum to get by.  His only honors classes were Math - he was in Gen Ed in high school in English, History and Science.  He only took 3 years of Spanish.  He's currently at a college for B+ students.   He'll be fine - he's super liked by his peers and adults and is the type of person who will land a job based on his personality and connections.

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