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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP--please head to Fairfax Co.

Your kind is not welcome in APS where our child's gifted status is worn as a badge on our chest.  We like our understated(and successful) approach.
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I prefer APS' approach over FCPS'.  It would be nice if people would read my actual question as opposed to jumping to all these erroneous conclusions.  I am not even asking about the gifted program.  I am asking about the school programs.  Contrary to what the PP said when he/she said there are no choices, the Montessori program is county wide, there are two language immersion schools, there is an expeditionary learning program that is county wide, etc.  If I hadn't used that hot-button word "gifted" I'm sure I would have gotten a flood of responses about the choices parents made and why.  But, somehow, when I say "gifted" everyone gets their dukes up.[/quote]

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The other recent thread about Arlington choice schools reminds me to add this important point to this discussion:

Remember that admission to **ALL** of Arlington's special programs/schools is by lottery ONLY.* ANYONE can apply (as long as you live within the circumscribed geographical boundary, which for some schools is county-wide and for others is limited to certain areas within the county). There is no program or school designed specifically to meet the needs of advanced or gifted children, and no program or school (other than the gifted pull-out that happens at all schools) that does not have children with a range of skills and abilities. No matter where you send your child to school in Arlington, he/she will spend the majority of his/her time in classrooms with children who range from gifted to bright to average to below average. Some people consider this a good thing, but obviously YMMV.

*The one exception to this might be the IB program at W-L High School. (?)[/quote]

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