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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't the responsibility of intellectually gifted children to "set a good example" or to make other children feel better about themselves by "mingling."

When I was a kid, they took all the gifted kids in our district and put them at the same school.  It was heaven for us.  Most of us had been bullied at our previous schools for being nerdy know-it-alls and only caring about boring/weird stuff.  When they brought us all together, we could finally be ourselves and we finally had real friends.  All of us were so much happier, and our non-GT peers did not miss us.

Of course, my district didn't have an inflated GT program with parents paying tutors and coaches to get their kids in.  You were either truly gifted, or not.  I can see where Ffx's AAP program comes off as elitist because the rich and powerful parents so often lobby to have their kids included when they don't really belong.[/quote]

I disagree. I think it's EVERYONE's responsibility to "set a good example". I haven't heard many comments about AAP parents being turned off by general ed parents. Only that they're in trailers which is outside any parent's control. I would also argue that for elementary, you were given both a disservice by your old school not addressing the bullying and by your new school not giving you any contact of people who had interests other than academics. How do you even know if your non-GT peers missed you? [b]Anyway, the typical AAP student is just as likely to also be the star soccer player as they are to be a nerd, so your example doesn't really make sense in many instances these days.[/b][/quote]

[b]That's because the typical AAP student is not there because he/she has a learning difference (giftedness is a learning difference requiring special education -- AAP is better suited to bright, normal high achievers, not truly gifted children).[/b]  I feel that the real gifted kids are probably just as badly served by Fairfax's AAP program as they are by general ed, at least socially.  Can they do the work?  Of course.  But is the program addressing the hypersensitivities and "quirks" that often accompany being gifted -- the very things that cause them to be socially ostracized as "nerds?"  No.[/quote]

+1000.  I couldn't agree more.  Today's AAP has become something parents think you compete for and no longer serves it's original goals.  But FCPS is so in thrall of the high test scores at centers, that they would rather oven inflate it than help the kids it was originally intended for.   [/quote]

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