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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this purported plethora of choices for AAP students pales with the number of choices students and parents of all students have to make beginning in middle school.  
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But that's just it - ALL students have these choices to make in middle and high school.  Why not in elementary school as well?  Kids who are capable of "advanced" work should be given ample opportunity to participate.  AAP shouldn't be limited to certain kids only.  There are plenty of Gen Ed kids who are just as capable.  Yet, unlike AAP kids, they are not given the choice of whether to attend a different school, with free transportation thrown in.  [/quote]

Do you really want it tossed back in your face that a determination has been made that certain students are more capable of handling an advanced curriculum than others at that particular stage in their development?  Or that students who are zoned for a school with both GenEd and an AAP center do not get to pick schools?  Or that expecting GenEd kids who are not ready for LLIV or AAP programs to tackle the additional challenges could do them more harm than good?  Or that there are also plenty of non-AAP kids who receive benefits from FCPS that kids in AAP typically do not receive?

I'm agnostic as to what the "right" answer is here, but I don't think it's obvious that substantially scaling back AAP would improve FCPS.  If anything, it might accelerate FCPS's transition to a system similar to MCPS, where the distinctions between the desirable schools and the undesirable schools are more pronounced, and well-known to parents, than in FCPS.  [/quote]

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