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Anyhow, I was sent to a GT middle school (and it was called GT back in the day)...........and HATED it!  There was exactly one class of GT kids and we stood out.  MS is not where you want to be so clearly marked as different.

The system was a mess back then, and IMO with w/ 2 kids in an AAP Center school, it's still a mess now.  I wish I knew the answer to fixing what ails FCPS.[/quote]

[b]A problem back then, be it good or bad, was there were so few GT elementary classes the students in them truly bonded to each other, to the exclusion of others when they hit middle school.  DS1 was in GT resource, pull out, but the middle school did not have honors back then so the resource kids were thrown in with the center kids in middle school.  Not a good situation due to the closeness of the smaller number who had been together for up to four years prior to MS.  Now, with honors there are so many more choices in MS, plus so many more GT/AAP center kids, again be that good or bad.[/b]

FYI, kids really do turn out okay despite of AAP or not. DS1 who wasn't in a center then rebelled against the center kids in MS finished college in 3 years and is successful in the IT field. DS2, who was in the center, bounced around with temp jobs following his liberal art degree but eventually the male brain matured in mid 20's and now is getting the highest grades since elementary school in law school.

Despite popular belief life is not decided on making AAP in elementary school![/quote]

I think these are very good points.

When I think of a very small self contained class with just a tiny handful of the most exclusive and highest scoring kids, I always have a vision of Malcolm in the Middle :)  Middle school is awkward enough.  Being segregated to a tiny group (and not the cool group like the "popular" kids) sounds like torture and social stunting for these poor kids.[/quote]

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