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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is about providing more opportunity for deeper/more abstract analysis for kids who can participate in that and thrive. My kid can 100% participate in that and enjoys it, but her grades are never going to be all 4's. She has friends in regular classes making all 4's who can't hold a conversation beyond the most basic shallow level of a topic. It's an obvious difference. So I'm not sure how you would reevaluate every year for AAP, but grades and SOL aren't it.[/quote]

Shy, quiet kids aren't dumb.... they are just shy[/quote]

Huh? What does being shy have to do with it? One 5th grader can carry on an abstract convo about a book, the other 5th grader isn't there yet. One is in AAP, the other one isn't. [b]Teachers, btw, are pretty good at zeroing in on the ones who are deeper thinkers. [/b]Someone also said the ability for a school to differentiate this varies in FCPS. That's true. Our center school does a good job going deeper into topics in the AAP curriculum. [/quote]

They really, really, really aren't.  Teachers are great at zeroing in on the kids who are above average, eager to please, have great memories, and are able to parrot things that they've read or they've heard from parents or other classmates.  They're pretty awful at identifying kids who are way out there.  In a lower SES school, it's especially difficult for a teacher to differentiate between a regular above average kid and a gifted kid because they get so very little time with the higher achieving groups.  In that limited time, the extroverted, eager to please, above average kid will stand out much more than a shy, gifted kid.  [/quote]

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