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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in AAP when it was still called GT.  For 6 months  during 4th grade I went to the local school and was in gen ed after an inter-county move.  Parents thought it would help me to meet the neighborhood kids.

Well, I made alot of friends.  But it was obvious to me as a fourth grader that I was not getting challenged and not getting the education I needed.

Closing centers would be bad for the kids.  It'd be bad for the county as well, as it would be a disincentive for families with gifted children to move to or stay in Fairfax.

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Melodrama much?

I would be more concerned about budget proposals that make it harder for teachers, such as increasing class size and cutting pay via reduced hours.

That would be a disincentive for teachers to find FCPS appealing, which is a bigger problem than a few parents getting snitty about having G/T programs in their home schools rather than getting to say their child is at a center.[/quote]

+1000
I find it laughable when people use the silly argument, "oh, but families with gifted kids would cease to move to Fairfax!"  We've already established AAP isn't a GT program.  So families who have [i]highly gifted[/i] kids (few and far between) aren't hanging all their hopes on a move to FxCo for its "world-class gifted program".  People move to Fairfax for all kinds of reasons - mostly because of the many great job opportunities in the area.  Not because of  AAP, for crying out loud.[/quote]

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