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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Navy usually has 4 3rd grade classes, but this year it swelled to 7 3rd grade because of the 3 new AAP classes.  The school is now overcapacity.[/quote]

Pathetic!  And remember Navy was one of 3 new centers added to deal with overcrowding at other AAP schools.   Another new center, Westbriar, is also already overcapacity.   And we're supposed to believe that without all these centers these "gifted" kids would be denied a decent education.  Utter rubbish perpetuated by pushy parents and a school board that needs to get a back bone.  [/quote]

Absolutely agree.  Centers, if needed at all, should be there to educate kids who can't otherwise get the education they need in a Gen Ed classroom.  That was the original intent, however you would never guess that from looking at the current state of AAP.  I'm all for "gifted education" for those kids who actually fit the criteria and are not just a bit above average (if that).  The school board needs to reevaluate retroactively the past couple of years of AAP admissions and return the Gen Ed classrooms to ALL kids except those who are tremendously gifted.  And that percentage, as we all know, is very, very small.[/quote]

+1000 You said it, sister (or brother).[/quote]

I feel like this is closer to how it used to be when I went through FCPS in the '90s. GT centers (as well as local pull-out) existed but there was not such a "great divide" - I'm not quite sure what happened to cause all of this AAP madness.[/quote]

Back then, when AAP was for only the rarified few, was there not also tracking (dividing the masses into separate classes based on ability)? When did tracking go away? It's not surprising that, with no other options for providing good differentiation, FCPS has allowed the numbers in AAP to rise. It is FCPS who decides who passes through the pearly gates leading to AAP. The appealing parents don't decide and could be denied in numbers as great as FCPS wished. But FCPS knows it would not be effective to teach from 0% up to 99.6% in each class for all of elementary school.[/quote]

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