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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since when do you have to have a 4.0 GPA to get into AAP?[/quote]

You don't need it to get in, but 4.0 is an indication that the standard syllabus is probably too easy for them and they might need something more challenging which is offered through AAP.

To the OP: There is nothing wrong with prepping.  If your child is an over achiever, indicated by 4.0 GPA, it is your/child's decision to seek advanced programs.  If the public school system has made testing a prerequisite to get into these advanced programs, you should not hesitate to help your child prepare for the test.  Don't go by what sounds good socially. For test preparation, some parents think a workbook or two is all that is needed, few other might think a few weeks would be good, and a few more might decide to allow a few months of formal coaching.  You be the judge - if your child needs extended test preparation, then make that investment to your satisfaction.  [/quote]
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Anyone who has a 4.0 is not in FCPS, unless they mean all 4's -- different than a 4.0.[/b]  It means they mastered the curriculum.  I could additionally point out that is a kid doing fine without AAP.[/quote]

Thank you to this PP who has pointed out rightly that there is no "4.0 GPA" in elementary in FCPS. Parents are confusing 4s on report cards with "4.0." This is not high school GPAs, folks.

There is a very recent, separate thread where a parent whose child has 3s on report cards is wondering if his or her kid can get into AAP. I would really hope that all these parents stressing about grades now, and AAP that their child isn't even in yet, would talk directly with their AARTs at their schools -- the people who are supposed to be able to answer exactly these questions, including prepping questions. OP, go to your AART and, if you have a good relationship with them, your kid's teachers and ask about this. My daughter's first grade teacher was great about explaining AAP and the kinds of kids she saw in first grade who usually would do well in it by third grade.

Glad my child is done with AAP. We did the full third grade through eighth grade and my kid had a terrific experience with good teachers and peers who were mostly engaged and interested in being in school and learning. But these days it seems there is infinitely more obsession before a kid ever enters AAP, about testing, prepping and pressuring kids than there was back when my kid was in second grade. There wasn't this insane competition and discussion among parents about this or that specific test, getting kids tested by outside organizations, gaming grades plus tests to slip into the program.... Or are those insanities just here on DCUM?

We were told that the program was about [i]aptitude[/i] for learning, not about what a kid already knew in second grade. Nor was it about a kid's grades in early elementary. There were plenty of kids in AAP in both ES and MS who did not make perfect grades, and were not geniuses, but who could definitely cope well with challenging academics. That was how the program was always depicted to us by the schools and the teachers -- AAP was never about being a tiny, highly exclusive "special needs program" for the super-gifted, as some AAP-bashers on DCUM want it to be. Instead, it's a program to provide advanced (as in faster-moving and in-depth) academics for kids who do have the capability to do that kind of work. [/quote]

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