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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm under no delusions my child is "gifted".  We worked hard on a parent packet to get him into AAP partially because AAP classrooms have less distractions, move faster, and cover a larger depth of materials.  More importantly, as poor and elitist as it sounds, the peer groups tend to be better.

He's not falling behind, but he's not the smartest kid at his table either.  I'm fully aware there are just as qualified kids as him in General Ed that could be swapped out with no difference.

All that to say, OP, stay away from your silly ideas that I'd have to re-qualify every year!  It was stressful enough the first time, and kid (and parents) don't need the added hardship year to year! Also imagine the social implications of being relegated... Ouch![/quote]

This is such a terrible argument! If you admit that any other kid could swap in with yours, and that the environment is better, why would you think you can lay claim to a spot? [/quote]

I didn't say it was fair.  I asked that you stay away from all these "silly" ideas!  I selfishly don't want to have to go through that process again and get lucky each and every year. If my child was kicked out, I'd be raising up a storm of litigation.   [/quote]

To be fair, if FCPS were to kick kids out of AAP or re-evaluate, they wouldn't force parents to go through another entire application process.  That would be too large of a time sink for too little gain.  It's more likely that kids scoring below a specific SOL threshold (maybe 480) would be booted or at least re-assessed.  [/quote]

I think the fair thing would be SOLs both above 500 puts a kid in and below a certain threshold pushes them out. The kids in advanced math already have the pressure to score high to stay in, so FCPS doesn't really mind doing that to kids [/quote]

Teacher here. I disagree with this. If a kid has an off day they shouldn’t be kicked out. Also SOLs are very teacher dependent. My adv math class last year there were only 4 pass advance. After having me my pass adv rate was 80 percent. [/quote]

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