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It is designed to accommodate the top 25-30%. They took the word gifted out of the name for a reason.[/quote]

I heard it accommodated the top 45%.  Someone else told me it accommodated the top 60%.

Wow![/quote]

That's a huge distortion.  According to FCAG statistics, 19% of kids in 3rd-6th grade are LIV eligible, and another 7% are in full-time LIV services through principal placement, meaning 26% are in the full time gifted program.  Another 10-20 percent receive part-time AAP services, but aren't in the self contained classrooms full time.

Fairfax parents like to believe that they're some nexus of giftedness, and that 10-20% of the FCPS kids would rank in the national top 2%.  For what it's worth, my kid with a mid-low 120s IQ was easily in the top third of her AAP class and breezed through the program.  My kid with a 140 IQ was bored and got nothing at all out of the program.  It's at best mildly accelerated gen ed, and not at all a gifted program.

My kids are now in a college prep charter school, which is also not a gifted program, yet is much more demanding and much more advanced than FCPS AAP.[/quote]

You know that AAP, like most GT programs, is only for grade school and grades 7-8? Not high school.[/quote]

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