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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank God FCPS understands that a child’s mental well-being is more important than downsizing the program. You sound like a horrible person and obviously not an educator. If you are an educator, may God help the poor children under your direction! [/quote]
No.  FCPS clearly has no concern at all for a child's mental well-being.  That's why they've allowed so many horrible race-to-nowhere, high pressure situations like AAP and TJ to flourish.  The horrible people are the ones who think that setting children up to fail by pushing them into stressful academic environments that are beyond their capabilities is a good policy;  It's not those who think that many, many children would be better off if they hadn't been admitted in the first place.  And again, why is the child's mental well being about being removed from AAP so critical, but that same child's mental well being from struggling in AAP, going through tons of tutoring, having anxiety breakdowns, etc. isn't?  Why is that same child's mental well being more important than the numerous academic peers who were rejected from AAP and told that they aren't smart or aren't "potentially gifted?"[/quote]

Virginia is not Maryland! We are a pro-parent State. Parents should be the only ones deciding to remove a child from aap once child is in aap. If you prefer a more government knows best state, move across the bridge. Fwiw I know of ONE child who had a tutor and that was for geometry in 8th grade. Personally I’ve told my kids that if they need tutors, they’re misplaced. But I make no stipulation for orhers’ children. Nor should you.[/quote]

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