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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the McLean pyramid, the curriculum is the same, as that was part of a test project. I know they combine the kids for math at Haycock. They also have combined them for social studies and science, but that isn't all the time.

Regarding whether the centers are really needed if they have so much overlap with the GE, I think that's what people are referencing. In the areas with high performing base students, do we really need to separate the students into two, labeled groups when they aren't that far apart academically. [/quote]

Yes, this is it exactly.  The kids at our center are so similar - regardless of who's in AAP and who's not.  It's a very strange thing to see them divided up, as if one group is somehow magically able to comprehend more difficult concepts.  When they're all together for a grade-wise presentation or event, and there's a Q&A session, the General Ed students ask and answer very intriguing and difficult questions.  Honestly, you can't even tell these kids apart.  All of these kids are high performing, whether Gen Ed or AAP.  The labeling and segregation is really over-the-top in these cases.[/quote]

The environment you describe is not in existence in all parts of the county, and certainly not in a majority of FCPS schools.[/quote]

In the Vienna, Great Falls, McLean, Oakton areas, it absolutely does exist.  The kids are so similar as to be interchangeable.[/quote]

[b]Fairfax County is comprised of more than Vienna, Great Falls, McLean, and Oakton.[/quote][/b]

Never said it wasn't.  And most people aren't saying get rid of all AAP centers -- when you may at most have a small handful of advanced kids at one school, they serve a purpose.  In Vienna, Great Falls, McLean, Oakton and some other areas, they segregate too many similar kids from each other, foment a parental arms race and divide school communities.  In these places, separate AAP centers are silly and unnecessary.  I would rather have had my gifted son at his base school then live with the mess they've made of schools around where we live.     
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Well said.  I completely agree.[/quote]

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