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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't understand how one child receiving a service or learning a particular curriculum takes away from your child, especially in the schools that do offer the AAP curriculum to all students who can handle the work.

That would be akin to saying that my neighbors kids having the opportunity to play AA baseball takes away from my kid who is single A.
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The fact is that the local AAP is not the same as the AAP center. The local AAP pulls students out once a week or so for one class of math, whereas the Center AAP is full time. Otherwise, why would they have this distinction. The root problem is fundamentally that of using a test such as CogAT to do the selection for a curriculum that is ultimately based on accelerated math (and yes, test scores are the single strong deciding factor in the decisions -- self provided work samples and accolades don't do much at all). While those who do well in the group standardized test may also do well (for the most part) in the AAP, which has been the argument presented by some of the PPs, the fact remains that there is a large population of kids who happen to miss some arbitrary cutoff score on the CogAT, who are also capable of handling the AAP curriculum, but are not challenged enough in the GenEd or the local level III (or even local level IV) in most, if not all, schools. As a result, we end up with a GenEd curriculum that is largely mediocre, and we graduate kids [i]en mass[/i]e who are  little prepared for or disinterested in STEM.

The proposition of raising the bar by making full time AAP curriculum the standard and FCPS setting a model of excellence in the nation, as presented by the OP, is quite a welcome one. It is also true that discussion on this forum probably does little to have the issue heard by the relevant administrators in FCPS unless Dr. Garza is reading these posts. How about an online petition such as change.org/petition?
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