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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AART claims when all the kids are high achieving no one is worthy of level IV instruction because they already have their peer group. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. The teachers lack skill in identifying these students and don’t put much effort into advancement. [/quote]

I have no dog in this fight but their read on it shows how teachers in general (not just at GFES but at most Elementary schools) misread what advanced academic servhces are for and how to identify children who are best served with advanced academic servhces.
In general—what the AART is saying here pretty much aligns completely with how most schools treat this program…
That is—they use it as “ability-grouping” to pull out the high-achievers because if they don’t, the academic achievement/performance gap across a classroom of students in the same grade-level is so wide as to make a regular Gen Ed class nearly impossible for the teacher to manage. The AAP services in FCPS allows those student to be removed from the classroom and instructed separately so that the teacher can focus on the remaining students who at at or below (and sometimes 3-4 levels below) grade level. 
And because of this, the AART is probably correct that they don’t really “need” the program because the students at GFES are generally performing and achieving at the same level.
AAP programs in FCPS haven’t actually been “gifted” programs for a very long time, imo.[/quote]

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