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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything you've described, and more, was an issue at our center.  Parents gossiping about who belongs in AAP and who doesn't, snotty parents who are dismissive of parents with GE kids (and the kids themselves), and kids in the GE classes being treated as the "others" (even when the school is their base school!) and inferior to the AAP kids.  Centers also destroy any sense of community, since there's such a stark divide between AAP and GE homerooms.  Yes, the kids mix during specials, but everyone is well aware of who has what label, and there is a clear sense of superiority from many of the AAP kids.  And yes, the kids who were borderline AAP absolutely feel rotten because they know there's no difference between them and most kids in AAP.

I feel that dividing kids into AAP/non-AAP does no one any good and only serves to perpetuate stereotypes on both sides.  Offering an AAP curriculum to [i]any [/i]child able to do the work would be the common sense solution; not segregating them into two very similar groups and labeling them.  The homerooms themselves should be mixed and the kids just rotate into and out of whichever group is appropriate for them at the time.  It's such a simple solution, I can't believe FCPS has wasted all these years with the current system. [/quote]

The solution to this is to have AAP-only schools. That way nobody has to feel left out or bad about themselves. They should start with first grade, with the option of testing in every year after that. Many gifted children have already developed school related problems by the time they're in third grade. [/quote]

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