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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Without AAP, Fairfax County will lose many of its best and brightest to Montgomery County or Arlington.  That means less tax revenue for the county and would hurt all of us. [/b]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it is elitism to educate children the way they need to be educated? Check out the research on how to educate GT students that is easily available by viewing FCPS's expert's testimony at one of the December meetings (I think work session).  These cries of elitism really bother me.  So, we should treat everyone exactly the same regardless of their needs and abilities?  AAP does not provide better instruction it provides different instruction to children who need it (of course, the county has vastly broadened that pool which I figure is the reason this program causes so much angst).

To those of you who cry elitism, I assume that your reasoning applies equally to sports?  So my kid who has absolutely no sports skills should get to play on travel soccer, elite swim teams, varsity sports ...?[/quote]

It is not elitism to customize education to meet children's individual needs, but it is harmful to gen ed students when they are grossly outnumbered by AAP students.  We need to balance the needs of all the students.  The need to provide AAP services should not be at the expense of the gen ed populations.  The needs of students in each group should be equal.  Maybe a stand-alone center is an option.  I believe most people prefer to keep their young children in their base school with LLIV vice busing to stand-alone centers.  If the centers stay in the base schools, then the population of the centers should be equal to or less than the corresponding grade's population.

On another note, it appears that the growth in the AAP centers, and the change in the name from GT to AAP, is a reflection of a FCPS effort to provide services to more students - not just the small percentage at the very top.  AAP is not a Gifted and Talented center.  Advanced Academic Programs are geared towards those who demonstate a need for advanced instruction.  [/quote]

Those few very specific demands have the option to pull their kids out of public and go to private school instead.  These programs have expanded with a mushy name of AAP replacing an actual GT program and swung the doors wide open.  The cost for this small percentage should not be a burden on the everyday tax payer.  [/quote][/quote]

That's fear mongering.  Without AAP Fairfax would be decimated...  No it would not.  Arlington does not have an AAP equivalent so why would people leave FCPS for Arlington?  FCPS obviously does not have enough tax revenue now as many/ most of its schools are many decades old and on the whole overcrowded. [/quote]

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