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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back in the 80’s in FCPS, a school would maybe have 4-5 kids in the whole school do gt programs.  There was one elementary school for them.  Now a school can have half the population in the program.  Why they changed the name of the program.  It used to be called gifted and talented.  These kids now in aap can be neither gifted or talented , just well coached to get in the program.[/quote]

Back in the 80's kids were tracked in classes. You had the G&T, the advanced kids, the grade level kids, and the struggling kids. We don't track any more. Partly because there are studies that show that kids who are struggling, but not far behind, are motivated to keep up with their peers and do better in a regular classroom. Partly because many of the kids who were in the struggling group came from poor families of color and it looked like classes were segregated. And partly because tracking became a method for wharehousing kids who were struggling instead of trying to teach them.

AAP is the only way to move a child into a more advanced group, which is why so many parents want it. But we can't have a smaller G&T program that serves only 5 kids in a school because of the pressure to get more kids into that group. AAP has been expanded to handle the kids who somewhat advanced, the kids who are advanced, and the G&T. It isn't working great but parents prefer it to the gen ed class. [/quote]

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