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[quote=Anonymous][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?[b] Then they might be in the second highest reading group rather than the highest reading group. [/b]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]

Reading level does not necessarily correlate to intelligence.  My eldest DC was always in the lowest reading group in K and 1st grade, yet still qualified for AAP.  DC was a late reader.  Younger has a reading disability and has never read close to grade level, yet still qualifies for AAP.[/quote]

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