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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, I find the whole AAP system ridiculous.  Most of the kids are indistinguishable from bright gen ed kids.  Aside from advanced math, AAP is not very different from gen ed.  Seems silly to have a special label, busing to a new school, and all of this drama for a very mildly accelerated program.  [/quote]

I agree. We’ve since moved and dc is in a good private school taking geometry in 6th grade. I come to the AAP forum to read the absurd overreactions by parents of “actual gifted kids”. You are in an advanced academic program that looks like the  ed in other better districts around the country. If you truly have an “actual gifted kid” you should know you need to advocate for their needs. [/quote]

I know many people who have either moved to public gifted programs in other states or sent their kids to private, and all of them found the other schools more rigorous than AAP.  I have an "actual gifted kid," and I've worked hard to advocate, but doing so within FCPS is like ramming your head repeatedly into a wall.  FCPS is incredibly rigid, has more bureaucratic hoops that you're forced to jump through, and the principal is the king or queen of his or her own fiefdom, which means that FCPS will support that principal if the principal doesn't want to provide anything beyond lowest common denominator AAP.

Anyway, congrats on moving out of the area and getting your child into a good private!  I'm hoping to do the same for my kids in the near future.[/quote]

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