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[quote]The AAP center is so removed that high level learners in GE do not have an option to reach higher.  Unless, of course, they are deemed "eligible" by a special board, during a select time of year and move out of their base school.   An exhausting process much like "government red tape" and quite frankly a waste of time and resourses.

Why is FCPS deciding in 2nd grade that a select few children are "out of the box thinkers" and worthy of a better education and advanced course work for the rest of their primary education?  This is wrong.  Most FCPS students could be successful with the AAP center curriculum so why are only a select few receiving it?  I am not speaking for the "genius" level students (about 1%) they need a select level of learning.  I am talking about the vast majority of the AAP center kids who are smart but not in need of a separate school and are not in need of "automatic" advanced placement.   What ever happened to earning your "grade" to be in advanced placement?  Placing a child in an "advanced" curriculum in 2nd grade is, of course, going to give them an advantage in later years.  But the AAP center as it is now is so biased, discriminatory, and not affording many smart kids, who are not in the center, the same opportunity at a better education.  FCPS LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD!  I swear this is grounds for a lawsuit waiting to happen.[/quote][/quote]

Couldn't agree more.[/quote]

I disagree. Parents are free to refer their child in any year up to 8th grade. How is that grounds for a lawsuit? If there were grounds for a suit, it would be from historically underrepresented groups who may not be able to afford private testing, not middle class Caucasians. And since the Young Scholars program is intended to identify students from underrepresented populations, I still don't see what the grounds for a lawsuit would be.[/quote]

[b]The lawsuit would be for unequal treatment in the schools. [/b] Those in the AAP Center/Local Level IV get fulltime services.  They are provided access to the advanced curriculum and provided the opportunity to work ahead.  Those in general education are not provided access to the advanced curriculum and cannot work ahead.  Many of the students in general education are capable of learning the advanced curriculum.  It's really unfair that only a certain group of students has access and resources devoted towards them when those same resources would benefit children in the excluded group.[/quote]

but it would have to be unequal due to some prohibited basis like race, gender, national origin.  Simply alleging "unequal treatment" doesn't even state a claim.  A lawsuit like that would be dismissed faster than shit through a goose.[/quote]

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