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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder who these parents are who actually think AAP is some kind of "prep program" for high school AP, etc.  No doubt they have younger kids and have no idea how high school even works.   :roll:[/quote]

[b]Washington Post: Fairfax program seeks to close the ‘excellence gap’[/b]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fairfax-program-seeks-to-close-the-excellence-gap/2014/04/10/21711a80-a2f0-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html

[quote]To develop their talent, Young Scholars may get advanced work in the classroom or be pulled aside for extra attention. They attend summer camps, field trips and other special events. Many move on to formal GT classes — now called advanced academic services — which have their own acceptance criteria....

To improve the odds, Fairfax and other school systems have created a scaffold of supporting programs that include AP and International Baccalaureate prep for middle-schoolers, extra tutoring and guidance, free summer school, online courses and open enrollment for honors and AP classes, and college application help. But nationally, comprehensive programs that follow students from kindergarten to graduation are few and, even at their best, can’t always counter the powerful forces pulling on students.

Sosa didn’t face the worst of those problems. She had a stable, loving family, food on the table, a safe place to live and study. But as she piled on honors and AP courses in middle and high school, she came face-to-face with challenges shared by many peers. For starters, low-income meant little money for educational extras such as tutoring or prep courses. Sosa also lacked a key avenue of guidance as she navigated advanced courses and college prep: parents who had been there themselves.

And as she took her place in classes dominated by students who didn’t share her background, Sosa sometimes felt conspicuously out of place. Case in point: one AP class in which students were asked to introduce themselves by talking about their parents’ jobs. “I always hate that question,” Sosa says. “Not that I’m embarrassed, but I just know I’m going to be different from everyone else.” She stuck it out and even doubled down, working harder than ever. “I didn’t want to be the dumb, poor kid,” she says.[/quote][/quote]

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