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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn't matter if one gets into TJ or not; [b]AAP is, in and of itself, a better way to spend years 3-8. As versus gen ed,[/b] (which is perfectly fine for most), AAP is the more rigorous academic route.  Not the end of the world if you don't get in of course.[/quote]

If your child doesn't mind doing busy work just for the sake of you claiming s/he is getting a "more rigorous" education, then sure.  They all end up learning the same things and starting high school in the same place.  So you do you.[/quote]

You can choose Gen. Ed or AAP. No one is forced to go to AAP. Amazing how many people clamor to get in.  All of them nuts I guess. 
Well, we all make the choices we believe are best for our kids.  [/quote]
"So you do you", "We all make choices we believe are best for our kids".  As an optimist, these statements sound like the makings of a shaky truce to me.  It's OK to think AAP is BS and that the folks involved are all nuts.  Live and let live, right?  However, you dismiss the value of academic rigor at your peril.  Middle school kids can choose to take honors, leading to AP or IB challenges in high school.  Whether beginning with elementary AAP or middle school honors,[b] a choice of greater academic challenge and responsibility will place your kid on a path that diverges more and more over time from Gen Ed.[/b]  It may not be apparent yet, but at some point you'll realize that kids starting high school can be the same age, same grade and same school but not in the "same place" academically.  [/quote]

This sounds like an argument to open up elementary AAP to all kids who feel they can handle it and would like to give it a try.[/quote]
Not an argument at all.  Merely indicating that honors is a choice and acknowledging that PP had observed that AAP is an optional choice for those identified as eligible.  For reasons of its own, FCPS restricts AAP or "early honors" if you prefer, to those children it decides are ready and able.  I'm not an education professional and have no basis by which to judge that policy.     [/quote]

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