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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:51 ATS though is a school that teaches advanced academics. HB Woodlawn is also known similarly and both of these enrollments are being discussed as unfair processes by APS parents. APS switches classes  for advanced academics and they have magnet schools rather than special gifted program schools. It's a matter of opinion which program is more low key and there are plenty of APS parents who say the gifted education is not enough there.

I'm sure FCPS could do a better job with their AAP program, but IMO, they have other programs that are serving students worse than AAP and the amount of vitrol on this site for AAP is just not matching what we both agree is reality. I've also just seen too many schools decide not to offer any AAP services to be sure they would be offered if AAP went away. 10:11 said it best and most concisely.[/quote]

Again, there is a significant difference between "choice" schools with a particular curriculum, where admission is still by lottery, and test-in only programs such as AAP in FCPS where key decisions are initially made in second grade.

The complaints relating to HB Woodlawn have less to do with its admissions policies (although some gossip about whether the children of well-connected parents are favored) and more to do with the fact that it is a small program getting a new building at a time when other schools in APS are seriously overcrowded. [/quote]

APS also has a test in program.[/quote]

It is much more low-key.  APS does not, for example, separately report students participating in gifted programs in its enrollment statistics.  You do not find multiple threads about how to appeal decisions in APS, or whether particular scores will be good enough to gain admission to the APS program.

AAP has become a form educational crack in FCPS.  The more affluent want it because their children are entitled to the best things in life, Asians want it because they come from cultures where the results of admissions tests can determine long-term access to educational resources, and the middle class in poorer areas want it as a way to escape the ESOL/FARMS students.  Over time, it's produced a dual system at the ES/MS levels in much of the county that replicates some of the attributes of a system with formal segregation.    
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Well said and very true.[/quote]

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