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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is the result of turning a gifted program into advanced academics.   When my son was in the GT program, the whole point was the busy work and unnecessary homework went away.  He was very engaged in his school work, at school, but not doing heaps of h homework at night because he and his classmates "got" what they were teaching and didn't need all the repetition.[/quote]  
What year was that? [/quote]

It is ridiculous. You hear this argument all the time:  it was a gifted program when my kid went, but not now.  Translation:  Her kid really needed the program b/c her kid is really gifted.  Today's program is not a gifted program and the children currently in it are not really that bright...well, compared to her kid.[/quote]

What I want to understand is how is the program different than it used to be? I keep hearing it is, but FCPS still uses all those gifted and talented resources with the AAP students, so is it really that different in an actual classroom? If so, how? Or has FCPS just tried to pull as many people as they can up into the AAP program without slowing it down too much?[/quote]

AAP is a completely watered-down version of what used to be GT.  They've admitted so many kids - many of whom are right on the border with the top GE kids - that it's no longer only the very highest group of kids.  They're mainly avg./above avg./very mainstream.  There's no way they can teach a true "gifted" curriculum to this group.[/quote]

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