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So your kid couldn’t be served, but you know full well that other kids are adequately served! Most private schools are there for segregation, so naturally they won’t serve the gifted well. Most families in these area are two working parent families, and homeschool doesn’t work for them. [/quote]

Most of the kids in AAP are adequately served.  There simply isn't a good and feasible option for the kids who are gifted enough that AAP cannot serve their needs.  There are about 13,000 kids per grade level in FCPS.  The 100-ish kids per grade level who are outliers are scattered across a reasonably large geographic area.  Very few parents want to put their 8 year olds on 1+ hour bus rides each way for elementary gifted services.  This is also assuming that you can even identify the outliers in any manner immune to prepping.

Even if FCPS were to return to the GT program that served 5% rather than 20% of the kids, the outliers still wouldn't be served.  AAP would switch from being 1 grade level ahead to 2 grade levels ahead, which is inadequate for the kids well beyond that.  [/quote]

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