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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The CogAT and NNAT aren't IQ tests.

AAP isn't full tracking from the top to the bottom of ability. Maybe it could be considered partial tracking.[b] Just the top 15 percent or so are educated separately, [/b]so this system avoids some of the pitfalls of tracking. No one (individual, or socioeconomic group) is singled out as being in the lowest group. For all anyone knows, any child in GE could be at the 85th percentile. The lowest performers can benefit from the influence of the highest performers, and the highest performers can develop more confidence. [/quote]

But AAP is not the top 15%.   Many of those kids are in General Ed.  Nor would it surprise me to find some of the kids in AAP do not fall into the top 15%.   It is truly ridiculous.   [/quote]

Very true.  Especially with the test score criteria for AAP admittance being relatively low, there are some kids in AAP who just squeaked in, and others in Gen Ed who didn't quite make it; a group of kids whose scores are virtually identical.  If FCPS would raise it, there would be a substantial decrease in eligible kids.  Maybe they would actually even be in the "gifted" range!   :D[/quote]

No matter where you draw the line, there are going to be kids just on one side or the other of the line, with very similar characteristics. Where could you make a division that would be completely clear cut with no close calls to make? [b]Human beings cannot be categorized so neatly.[/b] [/quote]

Exactly.  Then why are the human beings in FCPS being categorized into "GE" and "AAP"?  Why label them at all, why not just offer the AAP curriculum to any and all who can successfully do it?  I think FCPS would be very surprised to see just how many students are fully capable of "handling" AAP work.[/quote]

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