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[quote=Anonymous]It is not just the minorities (from another thread):

Fairfax County AAP program has lost sight of its purpose. It began as an immersion program for the "truly gifted” in order to offer them the advanced curriculum these children need. Through this process, there have been so many exceptions to the rule with inclusion for this, and inclusion for that, our “gifted” population is up to a whopping 20-25%! Really? No. Most of these children just need a different way of learning the same materials but instead are being given an “advanced academic” education and this is fueling the complaints and the faults being seen in high school.

It is not just the minorities being discriminated against here. The bottom line is the AAP program is providing “advanced academics” to children who do need to be provided a “different way of teaching”, but, do not need “advanced academics”. Fairfax County Public Schools are discriminating by providing a select group of children “advanced academics” just because they need a “different way of learning” and not giving the “smart” children, who can succeed in the standard classroom environment, “advanced academics”.  These AAP children have many more doors open to them. They are automatically placed in advanced middle school classes and given the “AAP stamp” on their school records which follows them all the way through their education.  Not to mention a “better”, “advanced”, education.  This is discrimination and I believe quite possibly “tracking” depending on the way in which the student gained acceptance into the AAP center.

A solution here might be for FCPS to offer “alternative learning” schools where the curriculum is the same but taught differently and keep the AAP center for the truly “advanced top 5% learners” where admission would be based solely on their scholastic achievement and high IQ’s.  I don’t know.  But FCPS does need to correct this sooner than later. The program and process as it is today is discrimination – but not just for minorities. [/quote]

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