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As the parent of two "truly gifted" students, I disagree with you.  I don't want my kids to skip grades.[/quote]
And no one's forcing you to.  If your kids are fine in AAP, hopefully with some individualized acceleration/differentiation from their teacher, great - I have just seen increased grumbling around here about the plebes tainting the "gifted" program, and FCPS doesn't have a gifted program - it's got AAP.[/quote]

DP, but you're missing the point.  PP's kids are NOT fine in AAP, and they're not receiving the individualized differentiation that they need.  The AAP teacher is too busy dealing with the masses of plebes who are struggling with the AAP curriculum, or the AAP teacher is too busy watering down the curriculum so all of the plebes can be successful there, even when they don't belong there.

I have one kid in the highest groups in gen ed and one in AAP.  The AAP has been watered down to the point that it looks almost the same as the gen ed highest groups.  This also means that over half of the kids in AAP would be served perfectly fine in gen ed.  The AAP teachers have been almost apologetic about the math, but they constantly are slowing down the curriculum because the bottom kids in AAP need more time to understand the concepts.  I'm getting sick of the emails sent from the teacher to the entire class delaying scheduled exams for a week, because so many kids need more time or adding remediation classes for the kids who did poorly on the quizzes or tests.  Meanwhile, my kid understood everything 3 weeks ago, aced all of the tests, and is almost crying over yet another week of boring repetition.  [/quote]

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