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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're missing the point.  It doesn't matter whether the system is bad or the implementation is half-assed.  FCPS has had years of tinkering to fix this.  In the meantime, our flawed AAP model is driving decisions that are affecting students, schools and communities.  If it is not special education for the "gifted" much of the justification for centers goes away.   If FCPS says this is about services, these services can just as easily be delivered [b]at many local schools where [b]if students would stay in their neighborhoods you would have more than a critical mass.[/b][/quote]

[/b]Not all schools would have enough students for critical mass. They may have just three or five students and not enough for a full class. Even if there are enough for one full class, it is considered undesirable for students to be in just one grouping for several years. At least two classes for mixing is considered best. [/quote]

I didn't say all, but certainly in McLean and parts of Vienna you would easily have schools with a critical mass.  When we start getting into discussions of "well, two classes are optimal," I'd ask "what is optimal for General Education -- whatever is left over after we've dealt with these supposedly gifted kids.  At a certain point all this pandering to a population that keeps getting proportionately bigger as more parents work to game their kids in just becomes ridiculous. And I say that as someone who had a child in GT.  Note, [i]a [/i]child.  Not all my children because kids can be extremely smart without the need for a special program.  [/quote]

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