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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me again how AAP is different from travel sports? No one complains about that. [/quote]
Travel sports teams would be akin to having advanced math classes or leveled reading groups.  No one is arguing against those.  AAP is more like having your kid be declared to be "gifted" in sports in general as a 7 year old, automatically getting a seat on any and all sports teams through middle school, and not having to play on the same fields ever as the non "sports gifted" kids.   [/quote]

Funny but I don't see anywhere FCPS AAP website has used word "gifted" except in GBRS! Where did you learn AAP is for gifted children?[/quote]

New poster here. Since I've had kids in AAP since the time when it was still called GT, I can tell you that one year (I'm thinking it was 2008) they changed the name because they wanted to emphasize and clarify that it was a program for kids who are academically gifted, not gifted in arts/music/athletics. That's what they told me then. Educators like to rename things, for some reason. Why did one of my high school principals change "lunch" to "nutrition break"? It's what educators do. . . .

And I'm another who was a gifted child who was mostly stuck in regular classrooms waiting around, learning nothing there except how to float along doing nothing. Gifted programs do make a difference, especially for lower-income kids like mine, who were thrilled to leave their high-FARMS base schools where the overworked teachers spend all day putting out fires and trying to appease the SOL gods. [/quote]

I thought they changed the name to label the services and not the child [/quote]

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