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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how some person concludes that this study equates to not getting rid of AAP in spite of the fact it mostly just caters to higher SES families and ignores many who are equally deserving but without the means to work the system.[/quote]

Here’s the problem with that statement: not everyone who has the means to work the system gets into aap and there are also a lot kids who get into aap without the means.

Kids are tracked by their ability, not by how much the parents make. And sure- those parents could honestly be sending their kids to kumon every week but the reality is that a lot of it is that you can see the difference when kids aren’t taught at their level.

And if you read the article instead of just the title of this thread you would understand that. [/quote]

Okay people with means and some modest desire can easily work the system. It just takes a private diagnosis and a few appeals. [/quote]

Yup. Many kids get in with bogus scores paid for by wealthy parents.[/quote]

I get that it's mostly a way for UMC to get their kids in a more academically focused environment and not a gifted program, but when I see people later claim that only AAP students should have a shot at TJ, I feel that's incredibly unfair even though my kids were in AAP.[/quote]

But they cast a very wide net for AAP eligibility.  They aren't missing gifted kids or even bright, close to gifted kids.  There really aren't many TJ caliber kids being missed in the AAP process.  There are some extra, non-TJ caliber UMC kids getting into AAP, but they don't belong at TJ and ideally are unlikely to get admitted.

That being said, the issue isn't that only AAP kids should be admitted to TJ.  The issue is that nearly 1/3 of the FCPS TJ spots are flat out reserved for kids not participating in middle school AAP.  This could easily be solved by using pyramid level quotas rather than school level.  Or it could be solved by eliminating MS AAP centers and instead having LLIVs at every middle school.  FCPS does not want to do this, though.   They crunched the numbers and saw that forcing a significant number of non-AAP kids into TJ reduced the share of Asians.  That's really all that they care about.[/quote]

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