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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved elsewhere in Virginia but our kids did grade school in FCPS. I remember the segregation that was AAP. My kids were general ed, and man it moved at a glacial pace for them. They're bright, but I did not prep them for the CoGAT starting in preschool like other moms because shouldn't being gifted be a natural trait instead of a coached one? Anyway, having AAP set up a segregated system whereby the general ed kids got the scraps. The only way kids stand out in FCPS is by being either a troublemaker or in AAP. Otherwise, you're just in the middle and therefore, ignored and pushed along with work that's way too easy. [/quote]

What do you think is the solution?[/quote]

Moms are prepping their kids for the CoGAT in order to avoid general ed, which means general ed becomes an afterthought, which means general ed keeps going downhill because there is no investment in making it better. All of the emphasis is put on AAP. Prepping your kid, getting him or her in, and coming to view the kids stuck in gen ed as somehow less than when they are not less than. Every kid is a quivering mass of potential. FCPS set it up this way, though. I am not surprised AT ALL that it isn't working. Separating kids out becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The school is effectively set up over time to work for only 2 percent of the classroom instead of the other 98 percent who are left doing the same stacks of flash cards all year for the end-of-year SOLs. The gen ed kids' only real purpose is to pass the SOL in FCPS. Other than that, they are irrelevant. Helping them work ahead and hone their strengths isn't the goal. Just get over 400 on the SOL is the goal. Then you can forget it all. Is that learning? No. It's educational abandonment.[/quote]

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