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Dude, there are like 100 elementary schools in FCPS. Or more. Are you really suggesting that every one has a rich academic gen ed experience, because your children have been to three different schools? [/quote]

Not at all.  I'm just wondering how much of the idea that above average kids will be ignored and learn nothing in gen ed is real, and how much of it is an exaggeration/urban legend.  I hope FCPS focuses more on the fidelity of implementation.  The schools with dismal gen ed are doing something very wrong.  [/quote]

We pulled my kid from gen ed at an AAP center because they were woefully underserved and sent them to private.  When you have five classes in a grade, and three are AAP, the gen ed classes end up being nearly 30 kids, with all the IEPs/ESOLs/etc. and, unless you have a great teacher, it's a shitshow.  We have a child in the AAP program at the same school, and it's night and day what we experienced in gen ed.  Kid who was previously in gen ed is also in a much better situation, though it's extremely expensive and required major lifestyle changes for our family.[/quote]

Like what kind of lifestyle changes? You can’t go on your yearly trip to the Caribbean? Or Europe?[/quote]

So pps were asking for concrete example of the issues with gen Ed and wondering whether people were just assuming gen Ed was bad or had actual experiences.  Now someone posts that they had a real comparison of gen Ed and AAP at the same school and this is your response?  It's that lack of constructive response by FCPS to the Gen Ed situation in some schools that causes people to shoes horn their kids into AAP so they don't have to make the financial sacrifices the pp you're attacking had to make to get her kid a good education.  Ultimately it's the exceptionally gifted kids of smug parents who will suffer because their kids are being "help back" by high achieving kids who "slow down" the pace.  Oh well, there are consequences for not caring about others.  Your cushy existence gets disrupted. [/quote]

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