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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, that’s about it. [/quote]

And, unfortunately, it’s starting when kids are at a young age. Exhibit A is the Advanced Academic Program (AAP) forum. It’s a program in Fairfax County Public Schools. There has to be separate forum there because there are so many parents posting scores of their 7-8 year olds and attempting to get into a program. There are perfectly fine classes in their neighborhood schools that are meeting their kid’s needs, but they’re jockeying for this program because they think it gives them a leg up. In the end, it doesn’t really matter. They all end up at the same high school with the same access to honors, IB and AP classes.

The parents are not okay. [/quote]

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AAP is everything that's wrong with this area.  Labeling kids this or that at the end of 2nd grade is absolutely absurd.[/quote]
AAP is the only thing that's right. It's a preview of what is to come in college admissions. The top 10% go this way, the bottom 90% go the other.[/quote]

"The top 10%" is laughable.  No one knows who the top kids will be until high school.  AAP is just a bunch of average/above average kids who are often eclipsed by their "normal" peers in high school - not to mention college.  Offer advanced classes, sure.  But to *everyone*.[/quote]
For my DC, the best school I know any of their non-AAP in elementary and middle friends got into is GW. Best for AAP was Harvard.[/quote]

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