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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My children are thriving in APS - but they are well behaved kids who are moderately gifted with no special needs - aka kids who will thrive anywhere. The gifted support provides some additional learning opportunities, but my kids are not multiple grade levels ahead and we support them at home.

APS provides a combination of advantages that work for our family - 
Convenient location for our work commuted and visiting family. 
Kids are exposed to a good variety of socioeconomic and racial diversity. 
Kids are not exposed to too many ultra-wealthy kids, at least for now, we’re zoned for Yorktown. 
There is no academic segregation like AAP. My kids go to the same school and barring redistricting, we know what schools they can go to. We bought our house knowing they could walk to elementary and middle school.

It’s a solid system. I grew up in a small, rural town and many people I know still live there. It may not be the “best” in the MV, but it’s significantly better than most kids in the real USA outside of our privileged NoVa bubble. [/quote]

Sure APS is loads better than small town South Carolina schools, but most people are comparing it to FCPS and MCPS, the most demographically similar districts.

If your kid is fine chilling at school, it’s a workable school system. My kid spent large chunks of her day reading her own novels and drawing while the teacher worked with the kids needing extra help. Considering the art work she brought home, this was probably 40% of her class time in 5th and middle school. There was in theory a gifted teacher, but nothing was ever offered for her to work on from her teachers who with push in model.

It felt like a waste to just sit around reading by herself for most of school day when there could be much more accomplished in that time. Even a “gifted kids book club” where teacher suggests a group read to allow them to discuss on their own would have been something.

High school is better, but she hates how crowded hallways are, hunger games style lunch, and the size of her classes (many are over 32)
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