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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]95th national percentile is not the same as 95th percentile in Fairfax County.

Take the top 2% in the county, put them in what had always been known as a gifted program, and move on.  Set the bar high in General Ed with appropriate differentiation.

Problem is AAP has become so large that exclusion is considered a slight.  Scale down the program, and the bulk of the parents will have nothing to complain about because their child didn't make such a stringent cut.[/quote]

This is exactly right and why GT was such a success.  Most kids remained in Gen Ed - which was a far better curriculum at the time.  The very few who were in GT were kids who everybody knew needed such a program.  There was no resentment and no crazed parents were pulling out all the stops to get their child in.  FCPS was a much saner place up until about a decade ago, right around when GT turned to AAP.

Of course, those who don't want to hear it will just say, "rose-colored glasses" or "nostalgia" simply because they weren't around to see how much better the system used to be.[/quote]

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