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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've only been here for a few years, & I think I've decided that this area is a little nuts. Outside of math, there is no reason why a good teacher can't teach a heterogeneous class all the while challenging the kids who need it while supporting the kids who need support. It's being done all over the country. This district has the resources to ensure it would be done well here. Dedicate good professional development to differentiation - support it - create teachers who are really good at it. I'm a former administrator (different state) - I've seen it done really well. What this district has created is not a gifted program anymore anyway... It has created the "prep" culture & has added to the pressure that is put on kids. They've encouraged everyone to read "How to Raise an Adult," but have created a culture that feeds exactly the opposite of what the book suggests!! Crazy. Figure out how to accelerate math for the kids who need it & create excellent teachers who can teach everything else to ANY child. Before I'm accused of being anti-AAP - I am the parent of an AAP student at a center & a GE student at a base school. I've been through a different style GT program myself, & I have an older child out of school (was not in this district) & out in the real world. I don't at all wish she had gone through school here...[/quote]

If you're saying that AAP is the cause of this area's craziness, I think you've got it backwards. The craziness over AAP is the result of this area's craziness. They are crazy over the inclusiveness of the gifted program in Arlington, and the lack of a gifted program in DC, etc. Everyone's crazy here, and some of it comes out whenever anyone talks about AAP.  If Fairfax had a different gifted program, people would be crazy about that program, too.[/quote]

I wasn't really saying AAP was the cause of the crazy - lol. Haven't been here long enough to come to that conclusion. I was just calling the whole thing crazy, I guess. I get the desire for math acceleration for a child who is talented in that area, but there is something wrong when kids are prepping for academics at age 7 or 8. What happened to doing something in an area of interest after school? But... If you try to resist this culture, do you put your own child at a disadvantage? Is that how this perpetuates?[/quote]

Most parents in the vast majority of fcps do not jump on this prepping bandwagon, and most parents of most gen ed kids are not thos obsessed and bitter about AAP.

It is only in a handful of TJ obsessed areas and on dcum where you see this level of bitteress, jealousy, fixation and obsession.

Please don't take the crazy posts (from either side) as representative of AAP. It simply is not.[/quote]

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