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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I haven't followed the AAP threads at all.  My question isn't really a concern of whether my child would qualify or not - it's more about getting put in an environment that is so high stakes at such a young age.  I just want a good school district w[b]here I don't have to be worrying about testing into elite programs[/b] at such an early age.  Is that too much to ask for?   The school districts I have looked at have fed into either George Mason, McLean, Yorktown, or Washington Lee.  [/quote]

It is a blip on the screen of most kids.[/quote]

AAP is hardly an elite program.[/quote]

Maybe not "elite" - [b]but Arlington considers AAP and/or all "gifted and talented" education to be so "ELITIST" that they eliminated it entirely.

Instead, any child identified as above-average is pressed into involuntary servitude as a tutor to slowest kids in the class.  
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This program (no I'm not kidding here) has a name:  cooperative learning.  Google it.

It achieves 3 things: 1) it improves "median test scores" of the GROUP by helping the slowest kids at the expense of the best and brightest,  2) it slows down the brightest kids and eliminates the need for AAP or G/T classes,  and 3) indoctrinates kids into the ideology of group-think over individuality or individual merit. [/quote]

Well maybe this is exactly what OP wants.  I can't say it's better or worse than FCPS, I'm sure the Arlington parents are fine with it or they'd move elsewhere.[/quote]

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