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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17 pages?  I knew it - the AAP crazies got out of their pen again.  [/quote]

I beg to differ.  This is talking about where to cut the wasted tax dollars in FCPS schools.  Looking for $148 million in cuts FY2014.  AAP in elementary schools would be a good chunk to start with.  It is not necessary and as it exist today a waste of $10million in tax dollars.  Not to mention it is creating a community of divisiness, putting a lot of stress on very young children, offering a better education to a select few, creating wasteful spending, creating elitist entitled children, and bottom line wasting my tax dollars!!![/quote]

no, those who need it benefit from it very much.  [b]State law requires a special program for advanced learners[/b].  A few disgruntled people like yourself not withstanding, AAP and TJ are an understandable source of pride for the FCPS.[/quote]

True:  for GIFTED learners, not your average good student-learners!!  [b]When AAP students are outnumbering GE students,[/b] the system has run amok.  [/quote]

Do you mean at AAP centers? You know that the AAP kids there come from several schools, right?[/quote]

Umm, yes I do know this.  But do you know that center schools are also neighborhood schools for the kids who live in-boundary?  And for those kids, many of whom are in GE, the AAP center model is a pretty unpleasant place to go to school.  The majority of kids there are in AAP and if you're in GE, your class is considered "less-than".  I'm wondering how you would (honestly) feel if you had a GE child who was very smart, but not in AAP, and who came home wondering why he or she was somehow considered less intelligent than the other kids simply by virtue of what class he or she was in.  I imagine you'd be pretty pissed about it.  [/quote]

I'm sure that I wouldn't be happy if this was my situation (and it may be with my younger child). Does your child not feel very smart within his/her own classroom, like the "big fish"? Would it really be better if the neighborhood kids who qualified for AAP were mixed back in with the rest from the neighborhood and your child might be in a lower reading group, math group, etc.? Could he/she not feel overshadowed in that way?[/quote]

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