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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people sometimes get a little bogged down by the fact that the name of the program was changed from GT to AAP around 2008. The program itself didn't change.

It's like when we got a new principal at our high school, and he changed "lunch" to "nutrition break," and "library" to "Informations Materials Center."[/quote]

You clearly didn't have a child in what was then GT, and haven't been following the steady expansion and decline of the program's quality.[/quote]

You are wrong. I did have a child in a GT center then. I have another child in the AAP center program now. Believe me, I've been following what's going on. Back then, I asked around as to why they were changing the name, and what was going to happen with the program. They said something about wanting to make it clear that this was about being academically gifted as opposed to other types of giftedness. Personally, I think there were more political reasons, though you never know with people in the education field, who sometimes just love coming up with trendy new terms for old things. I was in a variety GT programs, myself, in the 60s and 70s, and am all too familiar with wacky education trends.

At the time my middle child entered the GT center program in 2008, I did find it odd that so many others in that class had qualified. I have an even older child who had qualified for the GT program in the 90s, and it had felt much smaller then. My youngest, who is currently still in an elementary AAP center, was in that awful boom year. This child has not been challenged at all, but it's better than gen ed was, at least. I think if they could weed out the preppers it would help make the program more what it is meant to be, a special needs program. And we definitely need to improve the quality of general ed. General ed here really shortchanges kids who are reasonably bright and hard working. [/quote]

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