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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"screening" may be required, but what if they "screened" by using the current tests and then just let the AART and teachers at the school take (a) any kid who meets a certain cut off (like 135) and then the teachers/aart can fill out the rest of the class with any other kids who have been referred and have a high score or any kids they think might fit in.  Isn't that what happens now with local level 4?  Principals can fill out the class with good students who weren't officially designated "AAP."

My point is -- they could still "screen" in multiple ways without going through the whole committee review process.  They would simply make the assignment to the level 4 class a much more local decision.[/quote]

Screening and selection by a committee is required by Virginia. So is an appeals process through the committee. So is a separate advisorary committee which includes parents of gifted students that helps to evaluate and structure each district"s gifted program and policies. All of these are mandated by the state. The districts submit a plan for gifted screening, identification, appeals processes, and the actual program which must be approved by the state (and based off recommendations from the advisory committee).

Fairfax County Public Schools cannot just waive a wand and poof! AAP as we know it disappears.  They might be able to tighten up identification and do away with busses. They might be able to make some ot those McLean/Vienna type areas with the huge critical mass all LLIV with no centers, but they are not going to be able to simply eliminate centers and AAP completely[b] as you wish[/b].[/quote]

Wrong.  My kid is at a center.  I'm just wondering what this all means -- what they aren't saying directly, and whether eliminating centers and reducing the cost of selecting kids is what they are getting at.  Clearly, no district is "required" by the state to have full time AAP or centers.  So, is FCPS trying to go toward the models that ACPS and LCPS use?  That's what I want to know.  It will affect my kid.[/quote]

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