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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students are tracked. Told they are gifted, or not, or how gifted - it pits students against each other. Only a limited number of spots in AAP, so parents fight fiercely. It's so toxic. In HS, which should not have tracking, class grade distributions for the same subject are all over the place. No predictability. No consistency between schools or classes of the same subject/level in the same school.

FCPS are handed students, the vast majority are, of the well educated, the well off. FCPS does an ok job, but FCPS is not the reason these kids are doing well in life and headed to college.[/quote]

I’m glad our schools do not use gifted programs.  There’s no reason to.  Our high school still has a disproportionate amount of students going to Ivy League and top schools.  Those kids do fine.

One thing that’s not mentioned is the amount of Asian immigrants, immigrants from India and other countries.   In our area they come for the high tech jobs.  They are STEM people and they want  their kids to be mini versions of themselves.   Our math club in middle school is made up of about 30 Asian kids and a couple of non-Asian kids. My dd friends are from the US, Eastern Europe, South America and African counties.   She had one Asian friend at school who live two houses over.   By 4th grade she couldn’t leave the house after school so the friendship.  It becomes a segregated school.  It works a lot better if students blend and share their talents from various subjects and activities    [/quote]

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