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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ AAP is unnecessary. ”

People will continue to fight for AAP so long as the alternative is largely so called “in class differentiation” which amounts to minimal teacher time for the higher groups. Allow schools to ability group by classes and people would not care so much [/quote]

Programs like AAP where there are completely different classes and schools for "advanced" kids but not for the kids who are below grade level are very, very rare in this country. Nice experiment, FCPS, but it's time to go back to what everyone else is doing far more successfully than we are. FCPS has declined significantly since moving to the AAP system. You may not see it because YOUR kid is in AAP, but the rest of us have noticed how different the education is now compared to when we were in FCPS.[/quote]

+ a million
I attended FCPS as a child and my kids are currently in FCPS (and one has graduated).  There is absolutely nothing that compares to the GT program that morphed into AAP sometime in the early 2000s.  Current AAP parents would be blown away if they could see what the GT program used to teach.  GT accepted very, very few kids - those who were truly in need of a gifted environment.  As such, the teachers were able to implement a gifted curriculum, tailored to these exceptionally bright kids.

AAP is simply a slightly faster-paced version of the same curriculum.  The program accepts a large swath of kids; very, very few would ever have been selected for GT.  AAP should be made the regular curriculum, and GT should be re-implemented for kids who are highly gifted.  FCPS has done a disservice to all of its kids through the AAP system.[/quote]

All of this.  The GT program was exceptional.  When you think about it - they would pull half a dozen kids for a whole school.  Not the AAP is the slightly above average program.  And it hurts the whole county while  keeping the slighly above average kids on track.  It is not helping gifted kids either, because the program is not very strong.  I have known the truly exceptional kids to still have to go get private education to get in an accelerated environment.

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