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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Historically, the GT program had about 5% of students and since the early 2000s has had above 10%.  It's always been larger than the top 2%.

[quote]In 1964, FCPS created a GT Center program for about 1% of the 3rd through 8th grade students.  The Center program expanded fairly quickly to include about 5% of 3rd through 8th grade students, who were selected based on ability test scores.  In 1993, FCPS began admitting students to the GT Center program based on a combination of test scores, a Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale form, and other information.

In 2001-02, FCPS started to substantially increase the percentage of students admitted to the GT Center program, and also substituted the Naglieri Non-Verbal Abilities Test (NNAT) for the OLSAT.  In 2000, 6.7% of 3rd through 8th grade students attended Centers.  That percentage increased to 18% in 2011-12.  According to an FCPS Assistant Superintendent, the percentage jumped to 27% in 2012-13.  [/quote][/quote]

PP here, and I don't at all disagree.  Fairfax County is much more educated than most places.  It's totally plausible that close to 4% of the kids are technically top 2% gifted using national norms.  Add another 1-2% of kids who are not technically gifted, but are instead especially advanced, motivated, and out of the norm, and you have a good, solid cohort.  5-6% of kids in AAP makes sense.  20% or more is absurd.

Over half of the kids in my middle of the road SES neighborhood got into AAP.  Most of them had test scores around 120, were at most 1 year ahead in reading and math, only got pass advanced on maybe half of their SOLs, didn't qualify for Algebra in 7th grade, and so on.  There is zero reason to place kids like this in AAP and have them water the curriculum down for the gifted kids.  Any AAP teacher who is being honest will tell you that over half of the kids in their class do not belong in a gifted program and would be very well served in gen ed.  Of course, all of the parents of these kids thought their kids were quite gifted, but just "bad test takers."  [/quote]

There is no school in FCPS where more than 50% of a grade is admitted by the central committee to AAP. So this is untrue and based on nothing but your impressions. You would have no way of knowing anything about their test scores or abilities either. Please stop spreading false information to bolster your theory.[/quote]

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