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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting that FCPS doesn't generally consider SOLs because recent research has shown that performance on standardized tests like the SOLs are more indicative of successful student performance in a "gifted" program than IQ scores.[/quote]

Yes, but remember, that the gifted program was designed to meet the needs of gifted kids who learned differently, and aren't as often tied to straight arrow achievement as kids who would generally do the best on SOLs.  I think you're misreading the research.  To me it suggests that for all its pains FCPS still isn't meeting the needs of real gifted kids for whom the program was originally designed -- but a lot of kids who would be high achievers any way are being pulled out of Gen Ed and put on an advanced track for reasons that don't seem to be supported by state law. [/quote]

Irrelevant, FCPS does not have a gifted program.  They have an Advanced Academic Program.  [/quote]

+1. Tired of [b]that poster [/b]throwing up the same old canard.   Who cares who it was originally designed for eons ago? it's AAP now. [/quote]

"That poster"?  You mean the many people who are well aware that while VA state law mandates "gifted education," AAP is simply not filling that role?  If FCPS is actually required, by law, to provide a gifted program, then perhaps they should make sure the kids in the program are [b]actually gifted [/b]and not simply advanced in certain subjects.  The program as it was designed "eons" ago - I guess you mean waay back in the early 2000s and before - was designed for kids who[i] actually required [/i]a different learning environment.  The kids in AAP today?  Most of them are indistinguishable from most Gen Ed kids.  What's the point?[/quote]

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