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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in AAP when it was still called GT.  For 6 months  during 4th grade I went to the local school and was in gen ed after an inter-county move.  Parents thought it would help me to meet the neighborhood kids.

Well, I made alot of friends.  But it was obvious to me as a fourth grader that I was not getting challenged and not getting the education I needed.

Closing centers would be bad for the kids.  It'd be bad for the county as well, as it would be a disincentive for families with gifted children to move to or stay in Fairfax.

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Melodrama much?

I would be more concerned about budget proposals that make it harder for teachers, such as increasing class size and cutting pay via reduced hours.

That would be a disincentive for teachers to find FCPS appealing, which is a bigger problem than a few parents getting snitty about having G/T programs in their home schools rather than getting to say their child is at a center.[/quote]

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I find it laughable when people use the silly argument, "oh, but families with gifted kids would cease to move to Fairfax!"  We've already established AAP isn't a GT program.  So families who have [i]highly gifted[/i] kids (few and far between) aren't hanging all their hopes on a move to FxCo for its "world-class gifted program".  People move to Fairfax for all kinds of reasons - mostly because of the many great job opportunities in the area.  Not because of  AAP, for crying out loud.[/quote]

A quick look at the sharp decline in the number of Asian kids the second you cross into Arlington tells you otherwise, as does the very small number of NMSF in APS compared to FCPS.  But please keep arguing the same point over and over again.  It's like watching a gerbil. [/quote]

And you are like listening to Forrest Gump.  Have you bothered looking at the size differential between the districts?  And those horrible, awful property values in Arlington.

This canard that the best and the brightest will flee FCPS if centers are eliminated is just laughable.  And really, moving resources back into the schools rather than rearranging logistics and staffing is a non event. Get over yourselves.[/quote]

Exactly.  Those who insist that eliminating centers will somehow spell the demise of FCPS (as if it hasn't already been heading south) are simply frantic that they'll no longer be able to say their kid attends one.

Eliminating centers and reallocating those resources back to the base schools will only strengthen FCPS.  [/quote]

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