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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At an AAP school, friends are separated after 2nd grade. Both have low 120s IQs. It is explained that one is special. They are not to be together again - - not in 3rd, 4th, not in 5th, or 6th (oh, maybe music class) It's not just one friend but 1/2 of all the kids they know. They pass in the hall but they're not really attending the same school. And it doesn't matter how many A's the student gets or how hard they try, they can't necessarily join their former friends in the class of special kids.[/quote]

what are you talking about? friends are separated every year. Kids don't have the same classmates from year to year, and with the pullouts they have different friends for different classes. And if a student is performing they can always reapply to AAP in coming years. stop with the nonsense.[/quote]
Larla with the low 120s IQ does not need special gifted programming.  She does not need to be segregated from gen ed kids for 6 years.

@ the earlier PP asking about those of us who "hate AAP".  I "hate AAP" because I have a kid who needs gifted programming, is functioning at least 3 years above grade level in one core area, and can't have adequate gifted programming under AAP.  FCPS has decided that it's more important to make moms with low 120s IQ kids feel special than it is to actually serve the needs of gifted kids.  I also have a more "normal AAP kid" (high 120s), and I can see the farce for what it is.  That kid doesn't "need AAP", and flexible grouping would be perfectly adequate for serving that child's needs.   If kids like this remained in gen ed, the flexible grouping would be much more robust.  Since many of these kids are in AAP, the ones left in gen ed don't necessarily have the opportunities for even a 1 year acceleration in core areas of strength.  If these kids remained in gen ed, it would also allow AAP to move much faster and actually serve the needs of gifted kids.  [/quote]

Why don't you take your 120s kid out of AAP then? You can lead by example!

I have to say, I have 2 similar kids, one that understands rocket science, and one who is normally super smart. Yes, I wish the program were stronger for the rocket science one, but DC1 is still learning things in AAP, that DC1 would otherwise not learn, because DC1 would never pick up those subjects. Then I have the normal super smart one, who needs AAP, because it challenges DC2 at the right level, and DC feels good.[/quote]

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