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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3rd grade gifted kid is just being failed by this school system. No differentiation, no peers in their class that I can see, ridiculous low level instruction. Think 2-letter spelling tests. There are tears every night about how terrible school is and how they aren’t learning anything.

Please, any advice?  What’s a viable option? Move to Fairfax? I hear AAP is no great thing. Are there any privates that are more challenging?  Thanks for any advice or lessons learned. [/quote]

Either a kid in a gifted cluster at APS is not gifted (maybe smart or mom coached) and they're literally ruining the school experience for the actually few percentage of gifted kids, or a kid is actually gifted and will get zero benefit from gifted clusters at APS. APS is terrible for gifted learners and you can see by how their policy has changed from pull out to push in, and these days, open to anyone. The superintendents (past and present) who have promoted these policies are terrible and, from our experience, they place random people to supervise the gifted programs, and they (teachers, admin, and counselors) will lie to you in the face by claiming that there are many kids that are as smart or smarter than your kid even though your kid will say that they don't do anything hard but the other kids seem to be struggling with the provided work. Like I said, I'm not sure how many actually gifted kids attend school in APS since personally I know at least a few that escaped from the district in elementary or through the TJ admission process. But if your kid is actually gifted, there actually may not be too many other kids at that level in your school/class so they won't ever teach to that level. Since they don't seem to have a dedicated specialist to teach these kids directly, I'm not even sure most elementary gen ed teachers can teach them appropriately. With that said, We know a dozen or more kids who are very smart that did AAP during primary and middle school, and then most went to TJ. We also know one or two that are really smart at local privates. Other than that, find EC that gifted kids cluster to including some sports (probably all individual), STEM teams that are competition focused, or some of the local educational companies that provide above grade level classes that are lacking at most schools. The demand is there but too bad APS is to focused on virtue signaling and not providing appropriate education.[/quote]

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