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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll  never forget the mom who told me loudly --in front of a group of kids--that her daughter was just "devastated" that she didn't get in the GT program.  This was years ago.  She appealed and got in.[/quote]

That's terrible, a second grader should not be devastated :o(  Why is this so prevalent in some schools?  My children's school has a huge asian population and my son had no clue what aap was when we finally told him.  I don't think there's a buzz going on.  Or maybe because he is a boy and his current interests are more in playing than studying and girls are more aware?  It is still sad, and all it is is parents telling their children all about the program, prepping, hyping the program up and putting undue pressure on their  7/8/9 year olds.  [/quote]

New York City style-craziness, here we come!   I think it's only going to get worse and worse, unless FCPS finally wises up and makes kids at schools where critical mass of AAPers exists stay and do LLIV there.   As long as there is the perception that it is somehow better not to stay at your local school unless it is a center, you're going to have parents falling all over themselves to get their kids into AAP and perpetuating this often [b]phony stratification [/b]of kids.  It is simply unnecessary for MOST kids to be moved out of their base schools.  [/quote]

You are so very right.  It's already been happening, creating this false hierarchy between kids (and of course, their competitive parents).  Kids who already have LLIV in their base schools should be staying there, period.  I don't understand why they're even given the choice to leave for an identical program, complete with free busing.  [/quote]

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