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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my dd that some kids who think differently learn better in an AAP classroom. I made no mention of better, smarter, faster, or gifted. However, it only took a few months there before she had adopted the lingo and was talking about being with the[b] "smart kids."[/b]
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And herein lies the problem.  It needs to be reinforced to these kids - and clearly their parents too - that AAP students are not the only "smart" kids.  I think it's far too easy to forget just how very many Gen Ed kids almost got into AAP, had similar test scores, etc.  The cutoff is so arbitrary that it creates a false sense of just who is capable of what.  If the minimum threshold for admittance were much higher, then it would be clear that only those kids who are [i]actually [/i]gifted and [i]might[/i] need specialized classes are receiving these services.  The way the system is run right now, it's more like half the population are Star-Belly Sneeches and half are Plain-Belly.  But in most cases, they are completely interchangeable.  [/quote]

At my DC's HGC over 2000 kids applied. 54 got in.
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But this forum is addressing AAP within FCPS.  I was the PP who commented that obviously MoCo schools are doing it right, by selecting only the few actually gifted kids for their program.  AAP, on the other hand, accepts far too many kids to make it meait saningful at all.[/quote]

Well, on the forum description is says, "Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) Primarily for discussion of Fairfax County's Advanced Academic Programs, but open for discussion of AAP and similar programs elsewhere as well."

But anyway, I don't think i'll be back. This thread is stupid beyond belief. I can't fathom the contortions some posters are going through to avoid the obvious -- that if anyone is better than your child in any arena, there must be some kind of mistake. Some people are smarter than others. Some people are more attractive than others. Some people are more athletic than others. Etc. This is life, no matter how much you pretend it's all a matter of choosing the right words to keep that reality at bay. How are your kids going to be prepared for life when you are no longer around to hand-feed them their perceptions of themselves in relation to others?[/quote]

PP again. Sorry, I now see why the two programs would create two completely different  perceptions of why some kids get in and some do not. My apologies. Maybe we need a MC HGC forum.[/quote]

I can see how in MC, it would be easy to explain to the kids who don't get into HGC.  You would just say, "There is a very small % of kids who are truly academically advanced (or gifted, in that case) and who learn so fast that they really need to be in a separate class/school."  There, the vast majority of kids aren't in the gifted program, so it's no big deal and everyone understands why a few kids are.  Here in FCPS, however, the AAP system has turned what should be "regular" or community schools into ones in which almost half the 3rd-6th grade population is placed in separate classes, creating this artificial hierarchy.  The message this sends to the Gen. Ed. community is pretty unfortunate.  [/quote]

Ah!  I am PP that stated I told my DC that DC is smart to get into GT.  We are in MoCo.  Sorry, I should not have posted in this thread since I had no idea about how AAP worked. My bad. [/quote]

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