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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If AAP were for the top 1%, wouldn't they need a new curriculum? It doesn't seem like the current curriculum would really cut it.[/quote]

AAP has not been for the top 1% of students since 1964.  It is a total fantasy to think that FCPS is going to drop the program down to 1% or even 5% any time soon. It just is not going to happen.

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Advanced Academic Programs (a/k/a AAP, AAP Level 4 Center, Gifted and Talented, or GT) in Fairfax County Public Schools
[url]http://www.fcag.org/gtfcps.html[/url]

[b]In 1964, FCPS created a GT Center program for about 1% of the 3rd through 8th grade students.[/b]  [b]The Center program expanded fairly quickly to include about 5% of 3rd through 8th grade students[/b], 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.   [/quote]

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Tracking may still have existed at that time. (Does anyone know whether it did or not?) It would have been more doable for GT (now AAP) to include 1% or 5% of FCPS students if the remaining 99% or 95% could be further divided into different classrooms according to their ability.

If your child is in the 80-84% of FCPS that barely missed the cutoff for AAP, how would it help them to have everyone except the top 1% of FCPS back in their class? Then they might be in the second highest reading group rather than the highest reading group. The teacher might have to form more different levels, and when teaching to the class as a whole would have to address a greater range of students. So the time spent at just the right level for your child would be less. Will that really be helpful? [/quote]

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