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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All students need to be challenged but students are at all sorts of ability levels

The reason why there shouldn't be AAP for all is the same reason there shouldn't be AP for all.  Most kids aren't ready for the material and they drag down the ones who are if they are in the classroom period.

IQ sorry not sorry
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But AP is[i] available [/i]for all.  Some people have suggested open enrollment for AAP, which would make it available to all who want the challenge.

I think FCPS is greatly overcomplicating this.  Since AAP is only mildly accelerated and no longer a gifted program, the most sensible thing would be to admit all of the kids who are actually advanced in math and language arts, as measured by the end of year MRA tests or DRA (or whatever other achievement test they want to use).  It's beyond dumb that my kid's AAP classroom has an on-grade level reading group, yet the gen ed kids next door who are above grade level can't access the AAP language arts materials.  It's also dumb that some kids in my kid's AAP class had relatively low CogAT Q scores, are not good in math, and are struggling with advanced math, yet there are kids in the gen ed classroom next door who are really bright in math, belong in advanced math, but can't access it until 5th grade.  [/quote]

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