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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AAP students are hand selected for their potential for high academic achievement.  What those who argue that the AAP program has gotten too big need to consider is the possibility that the explosion in the Asian population in Northern Virginia in the last 15 years really has contributed to an explosion in the number of academically high achieving kids, and really these numbers may not be out of whack at all. [/quote]

"Hand selected"?   :lol:   You mean hit a certain (not especially high) benchmark on a test?  Or had pushy parents who made sure they got in?  Most of the AAP students in our center are Caucasian, so please stop trying to make race the reason for the gross [b]over-representation of AAP students in [/b]FCPS.[/quote]

[b]over representation? relative to what?[/b] Asians are probably 15 -20% of the students in the FCPS system, yet at many of the Centers where we live, in the western part of the county, they make up 50% or more of the AAP students. [/quote]

Relative to the GE populaton.  I also live in the western part of the county and yes, there are a lot of Asians at our center, but the majority of the AAP kids are Caucasian.  [b]And the AAP kids as a whole are starting to outnumber the Gen Ed kids, which is preposterous[/b].[/quote]

AAP is about 18% of the eligible FCPS students. Get a grip. :roll:[/quote]

18% is too many.  And I have a grip, thanks!   :roll:[/quote]

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