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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish more gen ed parents would weigh in on how their kids did in middle and high schools. [/quote]

Gen Ed parent here.  None of my bright kids were in AAP, which of course made them feel less bright because many AAP kids enjoy lording that over the GE kids.  However, once they started middle school, they took honors classes and added APs in high school - right along with kids who were previously in AAP.  There was no difference.  Honestly, the only thing AAP really does is give AAP kids a false sense of superiority and GE kids a false sense of inferiority.  That is my honest, unvarnished opinion of this silly program which should be made into an actual gifted program (as it was years ago) for kids who are [i]highly gifted[/i] and unable to learn in a typical classroom.  And the current AAP curriculum should simply be the GE curriculum.[/quote]

We put up with it for 3rd and 4th and moved twins out of FCPS for 5th grade. I'm disappointed we had to pay and take so much extra time out of school for supplementing and then private school in order to get the same education that kids in AAP got for free. We never would have chosen Fairfax County if we had known what it would be like for non-AAP kids.

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