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Level 2 and 3 are complete jokes.  It's what - one hour of pullouts/week?  Let's not pretend otherwise.[/quote]

DP. That's what I got as a kid in the 80s though (that's all there was).  My parents would have never dared to complain that I was bored in school.  I read, helped the teacher grade work and helped other students and I liked it! Lol. [/quote]

Everything was different then, though.  When they siphon more and more bright but mainstream kids out of the regular classroom and into AAP, it weakens the regular classroom and leads to lower instructional levels in both gen ed and AAP.  One of the reasons so many schools are eliminating gen ed advanced math is that after they've sent 20% of their kids off to the AAP center, there aren't enough advanced kids remaining to fill out an advanced math class.  [b]It's not surprising that advanced gen ed kids would be more bored now vs. in the 80s, since the level of instruction in gen ed in the 80s was so much higher than it is now. [/b] [/quote]

This is so true.  I attended FCPS during the 80s, and the quality of the instruction I received was so far above what kids receive now.  And this was in General Education - there were no actual GT classes, just pullouts.  ALL of the students were given excellent instruction - lots of writing and grammar lessons.  You simply don't see that now.

FCPS has coasted on its reputation as an excellent school district for far too long.  It used to be, but it is no longer.
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That's not entirely true.
I grew up in FCPS in the 80s and I was in GT. I lived in Vienna with Vienna Elementary as my base school and I was sent to a GT center at Louise Archer. I went to Longfellow GT center for middle school (yes, all the way from Vienna) and then back to Madison for high school where they offered both regular and GT classes in core subjects plus AP classes in junior and senior year. I have no idea how the selection process worked, but I remember taking an IQ test with a private psychologist. [/quote]

Ok - I would wager that the GT classes you were in were very, very small compared to what we have today.  And that the vast majority of kids were *not* in GT.  [/quote]

Correct. I think there were only one or two centers in the entire county. [/quote]

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