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[quote=Anonymous]Hey, 2:30

You are posting in the wrong thread.  The person you are quoting posted here by accident.

This thread is about general class assignments.

I am sure it must be your favorite topic, but maybe, just maybe, we can avoid turning this into another I hate AAP thread.  Or an AAP thread of any sort.

If you really want to discuss AAP, please start another thread or hop onto one of the 100 others. Just don't do it here.

We are getting nice posts from teachers and teachers' kids. Please don't drive them off by turning this into another AAP blather. Thanks!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 2 kids in AAP.  One, DD, is highly social, loves reading and science, and would probably do just as well in Gen Ed-- she was fine in K to 2nd grade.

My other child had a miserable k-2 experience  He was reading chaper books in preschool, way ahead in math, etc.  He also dislikes sports and video games and is very introverted, so he had trouble making friends, and began  to have problEm with self confidence.  He also had sensory development issues, which are apparrently common in gifted boys, but it is hard for him to watch movies.   He was bored in school, and began reading during class time.  When his book was taken away, he would other ways to entertain himself, like drawing on his desk, and that also got him in trouble.  When he moved to AAP, it was like he became almost  a new child-- interested, engaged, happy and confident.  The program was just whaT he needed.

I believe that some kids, like my son, need AAP every bit as much as other kids need special Ed-- they won't succeed in school without a teacher who understands gifted learneers and their particular social/emotional issues, as well as intellectual needs.  That said, we are talking abuot a small % of kids (probably 5% or less) who really needs AAP to succeed in school.  The rest of the kids seem more like DD-- often capable of doing the work in AAP, but they would also be fine in Gen Ed.  Smart

I'm not saying that DD is less smart than DS-  she is creative, loves to read, has an amazing talent for science, And an off the charts EQ.  It's just that, IMHO, not every smart child in Fiarfax Co[/quote]

[list]The 5% rule should apply to "center based" learning for children who really need a more advanced curriculum.  Have you, or many others in your situation, ever stopped to think that your child is not so much smarter than the rest but simply needs a different method of being taught the same materials?

IMO, the Fairfax County AAP program has lost sight of its purpose.  It began as an immersion program for the "truly gifted” in order to offer them the advanced curriculum these children need.  Through this process, there have been so many exceptions to the rule with inclusion for this, and inclusion for that, our “gifted” population is up to a whopping 20-25%!  Really?  No.  It is children like yours who just need a different way of learning the same materials but instead are being given an “advanced academic” education that are fueling the complaints.

For example on another thread, a previous school board member is leading an "awareness" campaign for minority groups who feel they are under represented in the AAP center and Thomas Jefferson.  A lawsuit has been filed.  It is not just the minorities here.  The bottom line is the AAP program is providing “advanced academics” to children who do need to be provided a “different way of teaching”, but, do not need “advanced academics”.  Fairfax County Public Schools are discriminating by providing your child “advanced academics” just because he needs a “different way of learning” and not giving the “smart” child, who flourishes in the standard classroom environment, “advanced academics”.  These AAP children have many more doors open to them.  They automatically are placed in advanced middle school classes and given the “AAP stamp” on their school records which follows them all the way through their education.  Not to mention a “better”, “advanced”, education.  This is discrimination and I believe quite possibly “tracking” depending on the way in which the student gained acceptance into the AAP center.

A solution here might be to offer an “alternative learning” school where the curriculum is the same but taught differently and keep the AAP center for the truly “advanced top 5% learners” who would be accepted solely on their scholastic achievement and high IQ’s.  I don’t know.  But FCPS does need to correct this sooner than later.  The program and process as it is today is discrimination – but not just for minorities.
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