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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The in pool scores for higher SES school is significantly higher than lower SES schools.  It seems like FCPS is trying to keep students from wealthier schools from accessing AAP.  Students scoring in the 99th percentile are not “in pool” at some elementary schools.  I can understand lowering the “in pool” requirement for schools that traditionally have less AAP students; but it makes absolutely no sense to try to keep students scoring in the 98th/99th percentile from accessing A
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FCPS is trying to “dumb down” the higher performing high schools by lowering the academics for students starting in 3rd grade.  Less kids in AAP will mean lower I-ready/SOL scores, less kids taking advanced math in middle school, overall less prepared students for AP/DE classes in high school.  [/quote]

OP, I'm sure the justification for the local norms is to make the program more "equitable," but I agree with you that it makes no sense to keep out kids with two scores in the 99th percentile (or the 95th percentile) from a program that ends up serving 20% of the student population.  The administrators would never admit to trying to dumb down the AAP program, but considering that a few decades ago, it used to allow only about 5% of the students, the program had to change so it could accommodate less smart kids.  It's not like kids in the 2020's are four times as smart as in the 1990's, so the rigor is much less today.  Ironically, all the hate around the program is mostly caused by the fact that many parents believe their children should be in that 20%; when it was just 5%, it was easier to dismiss as those kids being true outliers/oddballs/etc.  
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