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The label isn't helpful but the service is.  Would it have been better if Fairfax changed the name to Honors?  Or Intensified?[/quote]
It's more the permanence of the label and service that is the problem.  Later bloomers can gain the label and service by applying in upper elementary, but some of these may fall through the cracks.  Likewise, kids who were labeled in 2nd grade and thus are entitled to gifted programming through 8th might end up being pretty average by 8th.  The connotation with Honors or Intensified is that a child can elect those classes on a yearly basis, such that there's no stigma in dropping from Honors to regular.  AAP is all-or-nothing spanning 6 years, and there is stigma in dropping out of it, even if the child is struggling to keep up.  [/quote]

It's not clear to me why they created and are expanding the AAP track in MS.  It seems to be parallel and sometimes identical to Honors.  I suspect it has to do with the difference between test-in and open Honors classes, which is contrary to your argument.

My perspective is that of a parent of a gifted elementary student who is disengaged, dislikes school, and needs some sort of gifted program to engage him until MS/HS.  I'm not sure that AAP is the best way to go about having a GT program, but it's what Fairfax has.  [/quote]

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