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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a senior in HS who was Gen Ed and is now a full IB Diploma candidate.  FCPS doesn't rank the class so I don't know where he is in the class, but we believe he's in the top 10% of his class.  So far he's 100% in college acceptances with some significant merit aid.  Our base elementary school is an AAP center school, so he constantly was told he was in the "dumb" class during elementary school.  Two of the boys who were in the center class are now doing all "General Ed" classes in HS - not a single Honors or IB class.

My middle DS (now a freshman) was in the center class so he was in the center during middle school.  He compared notes one day with one of his friends who was in an Honors class with the same teacher.  They were doing the exact same work at the same time.  DS could not see any difference in what he was doing other than the fact that everyone in his class was "AAP" and the other class was just students who chose to be in the class.

So I've seen both sides - AAP and General Ed and I am not a fan of the AAP program.[/quote]

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My kids are in high school now, but the whole AAP / Gen Ed system always smacked of The Sneetches story.  With the exception of a [b]very few,[/b] these kids are too similar to be labeled "smart" and "regular."  It's wrong on so many levels, especially since the kids really aren't different from one another.[/quote]

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