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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that AAP is becoming a modern day version of "separate but equal."  Students from affluent families who are able to pay for test prep, private IQ tests, and tutoring have an edge on the families who do not/cannot.  Children with parents who can't afford this, or who don't speak english well, or who just aren't able to be as invested in their child's homework are MUCH less likely to get in - and it has NOTHING to do with the intelligence or giftedness of the child. [/quote]

The effects of prepping are overstated IMHO. White and Asian, higher SES students would/do test higher even without prep. For example on the SAT, which like NNAT/CogAT is a decent proxy for IQ, the average gain from prepping is about 30 points, while the gap between average white and average black scores is about 200 points. Prepping is responsible for some of that but not most. The situation with AAP entrance exams is more likely to resemble the SAT than not. Level the playing field, and the picture wouldn't change by more than about 15%. Restrict AAP even further as you and your companeros are proposing, you'd have an even smaller proportion of black, ESOL and FARMS kids qualifying.

[quote=Anonymous]It isn't a gifted program.  It is a more rigorous schedule, [b]but it is really aimed at any student who might be "held down" by the increasingly lower base at your average FCPS.  There are more and more ESL students every year, and with SOLs and budget problems the schools are finding it harder and harder to meet the needs of all students.[/b]  So suddenly, students who would normally have been average students 20 years ago are "gifted" and moved to AAP. [/quote]

First of all, citation needed on your last sentence. I want to see evidence that AAP has significantly lowered its criteria in the last twenty years.

Second of all, to be very blunt about the bolded part: So?

[quote=Anonymous]That is my problem with it.  I'd rather them find a way to bring the bottom up than split the top 1/4 away and focus on them.  [/quote]

Lol. Good luck with that. Demographics is destiny. Keep chasing that dragon's tail while my (prepped) kid is high and dry in "bloated" AAP.[/quote]

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