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In which case it should be open to all kids who can handle it.  I say this as a parent whose oldest went through the program when it was still called GT (and not so many years ago) and whose younger kids went happily through our neighborhood school.  Do you really think all kids who can work at an advanced pace or even the most qualified kids are currently in AAP?  I've seen scores on this board-- both test and GBRS -- that wouldn't have come close to getting kids into the program just a few years ago, now routinely pushed by parents (and accepted by the screening committee apparently) as good enough because the kids are hard workers or bored.  I don't think this matters at the elementary school level, but it definitely does bright kids an injustice in middle school. There, AAP kids get classes that prep them for high school and similarly intelligent kids who weren't pushed onto the fast track at 8, are stuck in classes like "Honors English" where there can be no required reading and assignments like writing a short story are deemed too advanced for them, but not their AAP (and often solely math-talented) peers.  This isn't just inequitable, it's not good for the kids.  And here I mean both AAP and general ed, since they'll all be together in those 9th grade honors classes excepting the miniscule % that go to TJ.

Yes, I have strong feelings about this, but I also have experience seeing kids (and not just mine) go through both systems.  It's been my impression that many of the folks who worry about this the most are parents of younger children and don't fully understand how all this plays out.  The system should not be set up so that some kids get special attention to the detriment of others who are at least as capable.  If you go back to AAP centers as only for the truly gifted who do learn differently, that's one thing, but the current system is not only poor educational policy, it's unfair.
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I'm all for honors classes at the elementary school level instead of this pseudo gifted program.  I think, as with higher grades, elementary school kids work a different levels and expecting every teacher to differentiate when sometimes there are huge discrepancies starting even in k is crazy.   I would have been perfectly happy with that and would have kept DC at base school if that option was available.  DC is a good fit for AAP as it is now, but you could get the same results with honors at base school.   The current AAP program is not serving profoundly gifted kids in any meaningful way other than giving them a faster pace.  DC is not profoundly gifted, but base school also wasn't the best fit either.  Current AAP is, they should just call it what it is and send it back to the base schools.  This way kids could be in honors in all subjects or some depending on the child's strengths and it would be fair because it would be open to all who can handle it instead of just for a select few.

I'm not sure if this would fall into "tracking" too young, but it just makes more sense.  They could then have a true gifted program for profoundly gifted kids, but given some of the posts on here, we'd be back to where we started in a couple years because every child would become profoundly gifted and be pushed into the new program.

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