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It is designed to accommodate the top 25-30%. They took the word gifted out of the name for a reason.[/quote]

I heard it accommodated the top 45%.  Someone else told me it accommodated the top 60%.

Wow![/quote]

That's a huge distortion.  According to FCAG statistics, 19% of kids in 3rd-6th grade are LIV eligible, and another 7% are in full-time LIV services through principal placement, meaning 26% are in the full time gifted program.  Another 10-20 percent receive part-time AAP services, but aren't in the self contained classrooms full time.

Fairfax parents like to believe that they're some nexus of giftedness, and that 10-20% of the FCPS kids would rank in the national top 2%.  For what it's worth, my kid with a mid-low 120s IQ was easily in the top third of her AAP class and breezed through the program.  My kid with a 140 IQ was bored and got nothing at all out of the program.  It's at best mildly accelerated gen ed, and not at all a gifted program.

My kids are now in a college prep charter school, which is also not a gifted program, yet is much more demanding and much more advanced than FCPS AAP.[/quote]

Can you tell me more about how you support your 140 IQ child?

I have a 7 year old who I suspect is at around that, and I'm trying to figure out how to best support him. He is in a DCPS school in 1st grade and working at a 3rd grade level -- the teachers try to challenge him but he spend a LOT of time doodling during virtual classes now and reading off the the side. I'm trying to add instruments and an enriching home life, but really want to do right by him.

I was tested at 147 when I was an adolescent and was in a pull-out gifted program as a child that I remember really fondly, but I only remember being bored silly during "real" school and reading under the desk the whole time. I also got really engaged with instruments, math/science ECs but honestly I went to pretty bad schools and think I could have done much better in life if i'd been properly supported. I have a super unconventional career path now. I dont want to make the same mistakes with my own kids![/quote]

I'll add that I think it's really interesting to hear about these programs that seem really well suited to kids in the 120s/130s.... I think that is a real sweet spot regarding intelligence and that people in that range do VERY well in life. It's when you are up in the 140/150s that giftedness actually needs to be supported and people can go sideways --- those kinds of people tend to be more skeptical of convention and can veer off onto a path that may or may not be rewarded.[/quote]

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