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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Smart people tend to earn more money and intelligence is hereditary. Obviously anti-AAP folks are too dumb to understand correlated omitted variables. lol [/quote]
My kid is in AAP.  My husband and I have graduate degrees.  We are not dumb.  So I’m not AAP hater.  But the system is flawed.   Kids with high scores get rejected.  Kids whose parents have resources and know the system get in on appeal.   And it’s an accelerated program Vs a gifted program.  I think any reasonably intelligent person can see it’s flawed.  The people who get very defensive about any criticism of it to the point that they have to call people dumb shouldn’t be boasting about their intelligence. [/quote]

I guess what frosts me is this assertion that someone's kid is more deserving of opportunities like TJ because they were in AAP. Yes, my kids are in AAP, but so what. All kids deserve great opportunities, not just those whose parents know how to work the system. Lots of bright and gifted kids fallthrough the cracks. [/quote]

In FCPS, there really aren't gifted URM or FARMS kids falling through the cracks.  URM or FARMS kids who fail to get admitted into AAP failed to score in the gifted ranges in NNAT or CogAT, and then failed to impress any teachers or AARTs in 2nd-6th.  Keep in mind that teachers can and often do refer children for AAP that they feel belong in the program and who lack parents who are likely to refer them.  FCPS goes above and beyond almost any other school district in casting a very wide net and identifying any URM or FARMS kid who is showing potential.

Being in elementary school AAP should be meaningless for TJ.  In middle school, however, the AAP classes while nominally the same as honors classes, are de facto more rigorous with harsher grading.  Kids who want to attend TJ ought to be taking the most rigorous courseload possible for MS.  I would either make MS AAP open enrollment and expressly more rigorous than Honors, or I would have all kids reapply for MS AAP in the 6th grade.  [/quote]

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