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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In summary, AAP had the potential to be a true gifted program, but parents figured out how to game the system by prepping IQ/ability testing (bc they believe their child to be on the cusp of brilliance, but not quite there), and now it is no longer anything close to resembling a true gifted program, so even more parents prep to get their kids in bc all bright kids need it. [/quote]

Yes and no.  The old GT program was a true gifted program.  For whatever reason (bad optics? Parental pressure?), FCPS decided to expand the program from around 5% of the kids to around 20%.  This happened before test prep was a real issue.  When you lower the rigor and include around 20% of the kids, of course even more parents will pull out all of the stops to get their kids into the program.  Pretty much every parent who is an educated professional with a reasonably bright seeming kid will think that their kid is in the top 20%.  Also, when 20% of the kids are removed from the gen ed classroom, it makes parents feel like their bright kid who is left behind will have no peer group and receive no academic attention from the teacher.

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Where are you getting top 20%? Do you have a spreadsheet of COGAT and/or WISC scores for the kids enrolled in AAP? At our center, there are plenty of kids in high 90s not getting in. Obviously scores aren’t the only factor, but the easiest source of comparison. [/quote]

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