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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is highly correlated to TJ and for TJ grads UVA is like a safety school. :-) [/quote]

There is a big difference between correlation and causation.  A bright student will have a higher chance of getting into TJ regardless of AAP or Gen Ed.  A bright student will have a higher chance of getting into UVA regardless of TJ.

IME and IMO, when comparing Gen Ed to AAP or TJ verses another HS in FCPS, it is the student, not the program or the school that has the most impact on his/her success.  After the student, it is the parents and home situation and has the most impact.  THen the individual teachers a student has.

I think the AAP program and the Gen ED program have the merits and both need to be tweaked- but AAP is not the Holy Grail and Gen Ed is not Holy Hell.  I've said this before, IME as a parent at Chesterbrook and Longfellow with AAP and Gen Ed, it is the individual teachers that have more impact on a student's success than which program that they are placed.  There are some really great teachers in both AAP and Gen Ed, most are perfectly fine in both and there are some duds in both too.  I would also say that a really great teacher for one student may be a complete dud for another.  The vast majority of teachers I have seen do well with most of the population of students.  There are a few extremely lauded teachers that have a 'niche' population of students, but do poorly outside of their niche and sometimes I wish that the teachers that do well with the wider swaths of the population  would get more credit.  When I say "niche", I do not mean AAP, I mean a much smaller population within Gen Ed or AAP.[/quote]

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