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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all about distributing high achieving kids more equally across the county. For example, Louise Archer was a below-average to average rank (on Great Schools). Make it an AAP center packed with high-achieving kids an voila - it's a Great Schools 10. Parents moving into the area don't know that it's because of the center, but they see the 10, buy a house and add their high-achieving kids to the mix. Over time, the entire neighborhood turns over and a somewhat "undesirable" school has become highly sought after.

Not as true now that almost every school has AAP, but I believe this was the original plan.[/quote]

Nice try but Louise Archer has a Great Schools rating of 6.

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NP and PP quoted is partially correct. I’m a FCPS graduate and my oldest sibling was in the very first cohort of the then-called Gifted and Talented Program begun as (at least a pilot program) in the ES level in the 1975-76 school year. It was slightly contentious with the parents-a large group of parents was concerned about separating young children from their “regular” or assigned classroom peers and discussed having maybe one 5th or 6th grade class remain as a GT class the entire year. Instead, at least at our neighborhood ES, the identified GT students (only 5th and 6th or maybe 6th?) were instead pulled out of class and met altogether in one classroom for a few hours for enrichment activities.

My parents were relieved as they were worried that my sibling would be among less “well-rounded” or extremely studious types which back in the 70s, were less accepted and prone to bullying.

I believe the students were identified by their teachers through SRA tests, report card grades and  maybe a separate IQ test.

Also, this era, the late 70s was a time of population flux in pockets of Fairfax County - many ES schools were slated for closure and/or consolidation. Louise Archer was one, as was Cedar Lane ES. The arrival and expansion of the GT program then single-handedly saved Louise Archer from closing. Cedar Lane became pre of an alternative school.

To bolster from ebbs and flows of FCPS population, note each and every FCPES had a niche; AAP, Cat B classroom, hearing impaired education, Language Immersion, a performing arts designation, SACC, Headstart, Preschool, off the top of my head. AAP is an outgrowth of GT.[/quote]

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