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[quote=Anonymous]PP here.  I don't assume to know all about my friends' kids. I'm sure they have many talents and strengths.  I'm an ex-FCPS teacher so my  friends ask me over and over about their kids' DRA scores, math groupings, and report cards.

I used to teach at a school in a high income area back when many fewer kids were accepted into the centers.  We were told to look for children who truly stood out from the pack and who were consistently 'outside the box' thinkers.  In my classes, I would always have several kids who were working above grade level in all subjects but who were NOT outside of the box thinkers. They were high achievers but they did not need an AAP program.  At my local school, where the majority of the class is English learners, my friends' kids do seem to stick out when they would have probably been middle of the pack or lower at the school where I worked.

Another issue is that if these schools didn't slow the curriculum down so much in order to teach to the test then more parents would be content with gen-ed and wouldn't feel so desperate to get their kids into AAP.  [/quote]

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