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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really confused as to why people who have children who score under 135 on a NNAT, CogAT, WISC or any other allowed test, think their child needs AAP and would somehow be disadvantaged in a general education classroom in a place like FCPS when the average score in a general education class is probably 119 - 134 anyway. Why does your child need AAP?[/quote]

My kid is 125, and I want to leave him in the AAP.  What bothers me are the kids over 135.  Why are they not moved to the next grade in general education?  [/quote]

I have a kid that is way over 135.  AAP is still moving too slow for her.  She needs an actual gifted program.  I'm not sure moving her to the next grade would work.  I think it would still move too slow, there wouldn't be enough deep diving into subjects as they try to do in AAP (still not enough yet, but closer then gen ed).  Also, concerns over maturity level of mixing kids that far apart in age.[/quote]

N[b]ot in VA, but I agree that moving a kid to the next grade doesn't always help. Every grade has a range of IQs, and socially and developmentally, I think kids do better among age mates. Sometimes moving a kid up a grade makes him/her the smartest, least mature kid in the class (aka bully magnet).[/quote][/b]

Yes, and suggesting that a kid should skip a grade as opposed to be part of a program that was created for kids just like him (but has since been taken over by garden variety smart kids) is absurd.  [/quote]

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