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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax County will go that way soon. They are doing everything they can to dismantle their AAP program. [/quote]

I have almost finished my third decade working in an ES for FCPS. I think it was much better when the program was GT and students who truly “thought outside the box” got into the program. Now many of the students who are in the program are in it solely because of test scores or because parents were squeaky wheels. Many of the students aren’t flexible in their thinking at all and are actually quite rigid with their mindset. [/quote]

Your last sentience is a dog whistle for anti-Asian racism, bigot.[/quote]

Yes.

When I grew up people were always saying this kind of stuff about smart Asian kids.  "They're smart but they're robotic, no creativity."  In every context -- math, music (ironically), whatever.  It's nonsense, it's horrible, and it is absolutely racist.  It comes from seeing kids as representatives of their ethnic group rather than as individuals.  It's part and parcel with Harvard systematically dinging Asian applicants on personality.

Of course it is entirely possible OP is not describing of Asian kids with the "quite rigid" comment.  But this pops up often enough that it's certainly worth addressing.  The anti-Asian aspects of the anti-GT stuff is kind of unmistakable at this point.[/quote]

So you don't think kids who attend school, then are drilled on math and piano for hours a day can become rigid?  Creativity was not rewarded in Asian schools and those are the parents "supplementing" their kids' educations.[/quote]

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