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In addition, fcps is only obligated to have a separate educational program for "Gifted" children (in addition to special ed) and AAP is certainly not a gifted education that it may have been many years ago. AAP just serves to provide additional advantages for mostly upper and upper middle class white children to receive better education than the gen ed children. It is unconscionable period not to mention all the shenanigans at the appeals stage perpetrated by mostly upper middle class white parents. Better to have a real gifted education that is limited to less than 5% at most and improve all schools especially the ones in poorer neighborhoods.  
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DP, and this poster is spot on.  Both CogAT and GBRS are heavily skewed to favor higher SES children.  Even aside from prepping, tests like the CogAT will give inflated results to kids who do enrichment activities and have educated, involved parents.  On top of that, many privileged kids do at least some amount of CogAT prepping.  Likewise, kids who are articulate, advanced, and knowledgeable are likely to get a high GBRS score, even if that's more the product of the enrichment activities and home environment than it is indicative of anything special about the kid.  Privileged kids who fail to meet the CogAT benchmark even after all of the enrichment and prepping flat out do not belong in AAP.  The fact that so many of them push their way in anyway is a huge problem, since it is leading to pretty strong economic and racial segregation.  Also, people may not want to acknowledge it, but removing all of the above average, upper middle class kids from gen ed absolutely does hurt the kids in gen ed.

So many problems would be solved if AAP reverted to a top 5%/gifted kids only program.  AAP would be able to be taught at a much higher level if they only had the top kids and not a lot of fairly average kids.  Gen ed would be stronger if schools retained enough of their smart kids to be forced to plan for some advanced groupings and advanced instruction.  It will never happen, though, since the parents of the somewhat above average, privileged kids will fight tooth and nail to keep them in a program in which they don't belong.[/quote]

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