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[quote=Anonymous]Original poster, I am sorry you're encountering the kind of insults and snarkiness that is prevalent on DC Urban Moms.

You said you're not familiar with the schools and I noticed also that your original question mentioned "AAP [i]such as [/i]Young Scholars." The Young Scholars program is not the same thing as the Advanced Academics Program so don't confuse them.

Rather than rely on anything you see here, I strongly recommend you first research both AAP and Young Scholars at the FCPS web site, then go to your child's school armed with a lot of written questions and talk with your school's counselor or designated contact person dealing with AAP questions. If you are concerned about whether your child is being challenged or will be challenged in future grades, you need to talk with the teachers for those grades.

[i]Generally [/i]speaking, you can't just move your child to another school, unless you move to a new home in the new school's area as well; an exception is if your child is AAP eligible and you choose to send your child to a school with an AAP center. If your base school already is an AAP center school, your child would be in the center there, if eligible. There surely are some exceptions but this is the general way it works. Again -- talk to the school for the rules and details.

I would not go by what any "school rating" web site says. Go by what you learn first-hand at your school. Don't assume that some outside company's rating has much basis in what goes on in your school day to day. It's based on standardized testing scores (which are influenced by many things and often don't related to an individual kid's experience of a school) and other factors that often tell you little or nothing about realities inside a school. (Example -- Our base school has comparatively low test scores overall, and other issues I won't go into, but all my friends with kids there love it and the kids do too, and they feel the kids are getting a good education.)[/quote]

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